MVPN Profiles Why do we need “profiles”? By design, architecture provides many choices: PE-PE C-multicast routing info distribution: PIM or BGP Multicast data distribution infrastructure: GRE encaps with PIM trees, MPLS encaps with RSVP-TE P2MP LSPs mLDP P2MP LSPs mLDP MP2MP LSPs Ingress replication with IP-based encaps … No consensus (and not desirable) to eliminate all but one choice No vendor wants to implement all possible combinations of options |