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Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF)                        A. Sajassi
Request for Comments: 9135                                      S. Salam
Category: Standards Track                                      S. Thoria
ISSN: 2070-1721                                            Cisco Systems
                                                                J. Drake
                                                                 Juniper
                                                              J. Rabadan
                                                                   Nokia
                                                            October 2021


         Integrated Routing and Bridging in Ethernet VPN (EVPN)

Abstract

   Ethernet VPN (EVPN) provides an extensible and flexible multihoming
   VPN solution over an MPLS/IP network for intra-subnet connectivity
   among Tenant Systems and end devices that can be physical or virtual.
   However, there are scenarios for which there is a need for a dynamic
   and efficient inter-subnet connectivity among these Tenant Systems
   and end devices while maintaining the multihoming capabilities of
   EVPN.  This document describes an Integrated Routing and Bridging
   (IRB) solution based on EVPN to address such requirements.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction
   2.  Terminology
     2.1.  Requirements Language
   3.  EVPN PE Model for IRB Operation
   4.  Symmetric and Asymmetric IRB
     4.1.  IRB Interface and Its MAC and IP Addresses
     4.2.  Operational Considerations
   5.  Symmetric IRB Procedures
     5.1.  Control Plane - Advertising PE
     5.2.  Control Plane - Receiving PE
     5.3.  Subnet Route Advertisement
     5.4.  Data Plane - Ingress PE
     5.5.  Data Plane - Egress PE
   6.  Asymmetric IRB Procedures
     6.1.  Control Plane - Advertising PE
     6.2.  Control Plane - Receiving PE
     6.3.  Data Plane - Ingress PE
     6.4.  Data Plane - Egress PE
   7.  Mobility Procedure
     7.1.  Initiating a Gratuitous ARP upon a Move
     7.2.  Sending Data Traffic without an ARP Request
     7.3.  Silent Host
   8.  BGP Encoding
     8.1.  EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community
   9.  Operational Models for Symmetric Inter-Subnet Forwarding
     9.1.  IRB Forwarding on NVEs for Tenant Systems
       9.1.1.  Control Plane Operation
       9.1.2.  Data Plane Operation
     9.2.  IRB Forwarding on NVEs for Subnets behind Tenant Systems
       9.2.1.  Control Plane Operation
       9.2.2.  Data Plane Operation
   10. Security Considerations
   11. IANA Considerations
   12. References
     12.1.  Normative References
     12.2.  Informative References
   Acknowledgements
   Authors' Addresses

1.  Introduction

   EVPN [RFC7432] provides an extensible and flexible multihoming VPN
   solution over an MPLS/IP network for intra-subnet connectivity among
   Tenant Systems (TSs) and end devices that can be physical or virtual,
   where an IP subnet is represented by an EVPN instance (EVI) for a
   VLAN-based service or by an (EVI, VLAN) association for a VLAN-aware
   bundle service.  However, there are scenarios for which there is a
   need for a dynamic and efficient inter-subnet connectivity among
   these Tenant Systems and end devices while maintaining the
   multihoming capabilities of EVPN.  This document describes an
   Integrated Routing and Bridging (IRB) solution based on EVPN to
   address such requirements.

   Inter-subnet communication is typically performed by centralized
   Layer 3 (L3) gateway (GW) devices, which enforce all inter-subnet
   communication policies and perform all inter-subnet forwarding.  When
   two TSs belonging to two different subnets connected to the same
   Provider Edge (PE) wanted to communicate with each other, their
   traffic needed to be backhauled from the PE all the way to the
   centralized gateway where inter-subnet switching is performed and
   then sent back to the PE.  For today's large multi-tenant Data Center
   (DC), this scheme is very inefficient and sometimes impractical.

   In order to overcome the drawback of the centralized L3 GW approach,
   IRB functionality is needed on the PEs (also referred to as EVPN
   Network Virtualization Edges (NVEs)) attached to TSs in order to
   avoid inefficient forwarding of tenant traffic (i.e., avoid
   backhauling and hair pinning).  When a PE with IRB capability
   receives tenant traffic over an Attachment Circuit (AC), it cannot
   only locally bridge the tenant intra-subnet traffic but also locally
   route the tenant inter-subnet traffic on a packet-by-packet basis,
   thus meeting the requirements for both intra- and inter-subnet
   forwarding and avoiding non-optimal traffic forwarding associated
   with a centralized L3 GW approach.

   Some TSs run non-IP protocols in conjunction with their IP traffic.
   Therefore, it is important to handle both kinds of traffic optimally
   -- e.g., to bridge non-IP and intra-subnet traffic and to route
   inter-subnet IP traffic.  Therefore, the solution needs to meet the
   following requirements:

   R1:  The solution must provide each tenant with IP routing of its
      inter-subnet traffic and Ethernet bridging of its intra-subnet
      traffic and non-routable traffic, where non-routable traffic
      refers to both non-IP traffic and IP traffic whose version differs
      from the IP version configured in IP Virtual Routing and
      Forwarding (IP-VRF).  For example, if an IP-VRF in an NVE is
      configured for IPv6 and that NVE receives IPv4 traffic on the
      corresponding VLAN, then the IPv4 traffic is treated as non-
      routable traffic.

   R2:  The solution must allow IP routing of inter-subnet traffic to be
      disabled on a per-VLAN basis on those PEs that are backhauling
      that traffic to another PE for routing.

2.  Terminology

   AC:       Attachment Circuit

   ARP:      Address Resolution Protocol

   ARP Table:  A logical view of a forwarding table on a PE that
             maintains an IP to a MAC binding entry on an IP interface
             for both IPv4 and IPv6.  These entries are learned through
             ARP/ND or through EVPN.

   BD:       Broadcast Domain.  As per [RFC7432], an EVI consists of a
             single BD or multiple BDs.  In the case of VLAN-bundle and
             VLAN-based service models (see [RFC7432]), a BD is
             equivalent to an EVI.  In the case of a VLAN-aware bundle
             service model, an EVI contains multiple BDs.  Also, in this
             document, "BD" and "subnet" are equivalent terms, and
             wherever "subnet" is used, it means "IP subnet".

   BD Route Target:  Refers to the broadcast-domain-assigned Route
             Target [RFC4364].  In the case of a VLAN-aware bundle
             service model, all the BD instances in the MAC-VRF share
             the same Route Target.

   BT:       Bridge Table.  The instantiation of a BD in a MAC-VRF, as
             per [RFC7432].

   CE:       Customer Edge

   DA:       Destination Address

   Ethernet NVO Tunnel:  Refers to Network Virtualization Overlay
             tunnels with an Ethernet payload, as specified for VXLAN in
             [RFC7348] and for NVGRE in [RFC7637].

   EVI:      EVPN Instance spanning NVE/PE devices that are
             participating on that EVPN, as per [RFC7432].

   EVPN:     Ethernet VPN, as per [RFC7432].

   IP NVO Tunnel:  Refers to Network Virtualization Overlay tunnels with
             IP payload (no MAC header in the payload) as specified for
             Generic Protocol Extension (GPE) in [VXLAN-GPE].

   IP-VRF:   A Virtual Routing and Forwarding table for IP routes on an
             NVE/PE.  The IP routes could be populated by EVPN and IP-
             VPN address families.  An IP-VRF is also an instantiation
             of a Layer 3 VPN in an NVE/PE.

   IRB:      Integrated Routing and Bridging interface.  It connects an
             IP-VRF to a BD (or subnet).

   MAC:      Media Access Control

   MAC-VRF:  A Virtual Routing and Forwarding table for MAC addresses on
             an NVE/PE, as per [RFC7432].  A MAC-VRF is also an
             instantiation of an EVI in an NVE/PE.

   ND:       Neighbor Discovery

   NVE:      Network Virtualization Edge

   NVGRE:    Network Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation,
             as per [RFC7637].

   NVO:      Network Virtualization Overlay

   PE:       Provider Edge

   RT-2:     EVPN Route Type 2, i.e., MAC/IP Advertisement route, as
             defined in [RFC7432].

   RT-5:     EVPN Route Type 5, i.e., IP Prefix route, as defined in
             Section 3 of [RFC9136].

   SA:       Source Address

   TS:       Tenant System

   VA:       Virtual Appliance

   VNI:      Virtual Network Identifier.  As in [RFC8365], the term is
             used as a representation of a 24-bit NVO instance
             identifier, with the understanding that "VNI" will refer to
             a VXLAN Network Identifier in VXLAN, or a Virtual Subnet
             Identifier in NVGRE, etc., unless it is stated otherwise.

   VTEP:     VXLAN Termination End Point, as per [RFC7348].

   VXLAN:    Virtual eXtensible Local Area Network, as per [RFC7348].

   This document also assumes familiarity with the terminology of
   [RFC7365], [RFC7432], and [RFC8365].

2.1.  Requirements Language

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "NOT RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and
   "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in
   BCP 14 [RFC2119] [RFC8174] when, and only when, they appear in all
   capitals, as shown here.

3.  EVPN PE Model for IRB Operation

   Since this document discusses IRB operation in relationship to EVPN
   MAC-VRF, IP-VRF, EVI, BD, bridge table, and IRB interfaces, it is
   important to understand the relationship between these components.
   Therefore, the PE model is illustrated below to a) describe these
   components and b) illustrate the relationship among them.

      +-------------------------------------------------------------+
      |                                                             |
      |              +------------------+                    IRB PE |
      | Attachment   | +------------------+                         |
      | Circuit(AC1) | |  +----------+    |                MPLS/NVO tnl
    ----------------------*Bridge    |    |                    +-----
      |              | |  |Table(BT1)|    |    +-----------+  / \    \
      |              | |  |          *---------*           |<--> |Eth|
      |              | |  |  VLAN x  |    |IRB1|           |  \ /    /
      |              | |  +----------+    |    |           |   +-----
      |              | |     ...          |    |  IP-VRF1  |        |
      |              | |  +----------+    |    |  RD2/RT2  |MPLS/NVO tnl
      |              | |  |Bridge    |    |    |           |   +-----
      |              | |  |Table(BT2)|    |IRB2|           |  / \    \
      |              | |  |          *---------*           |<--> |IP |
    ----------------------*  VLAN y  |    |    +-----------+  \ /    /
      |  AC2         | |  +----------+    |                    +-----
      |              | |    MAC-VRF1      |                         |
      |              +-+    RD1/RT1       |                         |
      |                +------------------+                         |
      |                                                             |
      |                                                             |
      +-------------------------------------------------------------+

                        Figure 1: EVPN IRB PE Model

   A tenant needing IRB services on a PE requires an IP-VRF table along
   with one or more MAC-VRF tables.  An IP-VRF, as defined in [RFC4364],
   is the instantiation of an IP-VPN instance in a PE.  A MAC-VRF, as
   defined in [RFC7432], is the instantiation of an EVI in a PE.  A MAC-
   VRF consists of one or more bridge tables, where each bridge table
   corresponds to a VLAN (broadcast domain).  If service interfaces for
   an EVPN PE are configured in VLAN-based mode (i.e., Section 6.1 of
   [RFC7432]), then there is only a single bridge table per MAC-VRF (per
   EVI) -- i.e., there is only one tenant VLAN per EVI.  However, if
   service interfaces for an EVPN PE are configured in VLAN-aware bundle
   mode (i.e., Section 6.3 of [RFC7432]), then there are several bridge
   tables per MAC-VRF (per EVI) -- i.e., there are several tenant VLANs
   per EVI.

   Each bridge table is connected to an IP-VRF via an L3 interface
   called an "IRB interface".  Since a single tenant subnet is typically
   (and in this document) represented by a VLAN (and thus supported by a
   single bridge table), for a given tenant, there are as many bridge
   tables as there are subnets.  Thus, there are also as many IRB
   interfaces between the tenant IP-VRF and the associated bridge tables
   as shown in the PE model above.

   IP-VRF is identified by its corresponding Route Target and Route
   Distinguisher, and MAC-VRF is also identified by its corresponding
   Route Target and Route Distinguisher.  If operating in EVPN VLAN-
   based mode, then a receiving PE that receives an EVPN route with a
   MAC-VRF Route Target can identify the corresponding bridge table;
   however, if operating in EVPN VLAN-aware bundle mode, then the
   receiving PE needs both the MAC-VRF Route Target and VLAN ID in order
   to identify the corresponding bridge table.

4.  Symmetric and Asymmetric IRB

   This document defines and describes two types of IRB solutions --
   namely, symmetric and asymmetric IRB.  The description of symmetric
   and asymmetric IRB procedures relating to data path operations and
   tables in this document is a logical view of data path lookups and
   related tables.  Actual implementations, while following this logical
   view, may not strictly adhere to it for performance trade-offs.
   Specifically,

   *  References to an ARP table in the context of asymmetric IRB is a
      logical view of a forwarding table that maintains an IP-to-MAC
      binding entry on a Layer 3 interface for both IPv4 and IPv6.
      These entries are not subject to ARP or ND protocols.  For IP-to-
      MAC bindings learned via EVPN, an implementation may choose to
      import these bindings directly to the respective forwarding table
      (such as an adjacency/next-hop table) as opposed to importing them
      to ARP or ND protocol tables.

   *  References to a host IP lookup followed by a host MAC lookup in
      the context of asymmetric IRB MAY be collapsed into a single IP
      lookup in a hardware implementation.

   In symmetric IRB, as its name implies, the lookup operation is
   symmetric at both the ingress and egress PEs -- i.e., both ingress
   and egress PEs perform lookups on both MAC and IP addresses.  The
   ingress PE performs a MAC lookup followed by an IP lookup, and the
   egress PE performs an IP lookup followed by a MAC lookup, as depicted
   in the following figure.

                  Ingress PE                   Egress PE
            +-------------------+        +------------------+
            |                   |        |                  |
            |    +-> IP-VRF ----|---->---|-----> IP-VRF -+  |
            |    |              |        |               |  |
            |   BT1        BT2  |        |  BT3         BT2 |
            |    |              |        |               |  |
            |    ^              |        |               v  |
            |    |              |        |               |  |
            +-------------------+        +------------------+
                 ^                                       |
                 |                                       |
           TS1->-+                                       +->-TS2

                          Figure 2: Symmetric IRB

   In symmetric IRB, as shown in Figure 2, the inter-subnet forwarding
   between two PEs is done between their associated IP-VRFs.  Therefore,
   the tunnel connecting these IP-VRFs can be either an IP-only tunnel
   (e.g., in the case of MPLS or GPE encapsulation) or an Ethernet NVO
   tunnel (e.g., in the case of VXLAN encapsulation).  If it is an
   Ethernet NVO tunnel, the TS1's IP packet is encapsulated in an
   Ethernet header consisting of ingress and egress PE MAC addresses --
   i.e., there is no need for the ingress PE to use the destination
   TS2's MAC address.  Therefore, in symmetric IRB, there is no need for
   the ingress PE to maintain ARP entries for the association of the
   destination TS2's IP and MAC addresses in its ARP table.  Each PE
   participating in symmetric IRB only maintains ARP entries for locally
   connected hosts and MAC-VRFs/BTs for only locally configured subnets.

   In asymmetric IRB, the lookup operation is asymmetric and the ingress
   PE performs three lookups, whereas the egress PE performs a single
   lookup -- i.e., the ingress PE performs a MAC lookup, followed by an
   IP lookup, followed by a MAC lookup again.  The egress PE performs
   just a single MAC lookup as depicted in Figure 3 below.

               Ingress PE                       Egress PE
            +-------------------+        +------------------+
            |                   |        |                  |
            |    +-> IP-VRF ->  |        |      IP-VRF      |
            |    |           |  |        |                  |
            |   BT1        BT2  |        |  BT3         BT2 |
            |    |           |  |        |              | | |
            |    |           +--|--->----|--------------+ | |
            |    |              |        |                v |
            +-------------------+        +----------------|-+
                 ^                                        |
                 |                                        |
           TS1->-+                                        +->-TS2

                          Figure 3: Asymmetric IRB

   In asymmetric IRB, as shown in Figure 3, the inter-subnet forwarding
   between two PEs is done between their associated MAC-VRFs/BTs.
   Therefore, the MPLS or NVO tunnel used for inter-subnet forwarding
   MUST be of type Ethernet.  Since only MAC lookup is performed at the
   egress PE (e.g., no IP lookup), the TS1's IP packets need to be
   encapsulated with the destination TS2's MAC address.  In order for
   the ingress PE to perform such encapsulation, it needs to maintain
   TS2's IP and MAC address association in its ARP table.  Furthermore,
   it needs to maintain destination TS2's MAC address in the
   corresponding bridge table even though it may not have any TSs of the
   corresponding subnet locally attached.  In other words, each PE
   participating in asymmetric IRB MUST maintain ARP entries for remote
   hosts (hosts connected to other PEs) as well as maintain MAC-VRFs/BTs
   and IRB interfaces for ALL subnets in an IP-VRF, including subnets
   that may not be locally attached.  Therefore, careful consideration
   of the PE scale aspects for its ARP table size, its IRB interfaces,
   and the number and size of its bridge tables should be given for the
   application of asymmetric IRB.

   It should be noted that whenever a PE performs a host IP lookup for a
   packet that is routed, the IPv4 Time To Live (TTL) or IPv6 hop limit
   for that packet is decremented by one, and if it reaches zero, the
   packet is discarded.  In the case of symmetric IRB, the TTL / hop
   limit is decremented by both ingress and egress PEs (once by each),
   whereas in the case of asymmetric IRB, the TTL / hop limit is
   decremented only once by the ingress PE.

   The following sections define the control and data plane procedures
   for symmetric and asymmetric IRB on ingress and egress PEs.  The
   following figure is used to describe these procedures, showing a
   single IP-VRF and a number of BDs on each PE for a given tenant.
   That is, an IP-VRF connects one or more EVIs, and each EVI contains
   one MAC-VRF; each MAC VRF consists of one or more bridge tables, one
   per BD; and a PE has an associated IRB interface for each BD.

                    PE 1         +---------+
              +-------------+    |         |
      TS1-----|         MACx|    |         |        PE2
    (M1/IP1)  |(BT1)        |    |         |   +-------------+
      TS5-----|      \      |    |  MPLS/  |   |MACy  (BT3)  |-----TS3
    (M5/IP5)  |IPx/Mx \     |    |  VXLAN/ |   |     /       | (M3/IP3)
              |    (IP-VRF1)|----|  NVGRE  |---|(IP-VRF1)    |
              |       /     |    |         |   |     \       |
      TS2-----|(BT2) /      |    |         |   |      (BT1)  |-----TS4
    (M2/IP2)  |             |    |         |   |             |  (M4/IP4)
              +-------------+    |         |   +-------------+
                                 |         |
                                 +---------+

                          Figure 4: IRB Forwarding

4.1.  IRB Interface and Its MAC and IP Addresses

   To support inter-subnet forwarding on a PE, the PE acts as an IP
   default gateway from the perspective of the attached Tenant Systems
   where default gateway MAC and IP addresses are configured on each IRB
   interface associated with its subnet and fall into one of the
   following two options:

   1.  All the PEs for a given tenant subnet use the same anycast
       default gateway IP and MAC addresses.  On each PE, these default
       gateway IP and MAC addresses correspond to the IRB interface
       connecting the bridge table associated with the tenant's VLAN to
       the corresponding tenant's IP-VRF.

   2.  Each PE for a given tenant subnet uses the same anycast default
       gateway IP address but its own MAC address.  These MAC addresses
       are aliased to the same anycast default gateway IP address
       through the use of the Default Gateway extended community as
       specified in [RFC7432], which is carried in the EVPN MAC/IP
       Advertisement routes.  On each PE, this default gateway IP
       address, along with its associated MAC addresses, correspond to
       the IRB interface connecting the bridge table associated with the
       tenant's VLAN to the corresponding tenant's IP-VRF.

   It is worth noting that if the applications that are running on the
   TSs are employing or relying on any form of MAC security, then the
   first option (i.e., using an anycast MAC address) should be used to
   ensure that the applications receive traffic from the same IRB
   interface MAC address to which they are sending.  If the second
   option is used, then the IRB interface MAC address MUST be the one
   used in the initial ARP reply or ND Neighbor Advertisement (NA) for
   that TS.

   Although both of these options are applicable to both symmetric and
   asymmetric IRB, option 1 is recommended because of the ease of
   anycast MAC address provisioning on not only the IRB interface
   associated with a given subnet across all the PEs corresponding to
   that VLAN but also on all IRB interfaces associated with all the
   tenant's subnets across all the PEs corresponding to all the VLANs
   for that tenant.  Furthermore, it simplifies the operation as there
   is no need for Default Gateway extended community advertisement and
   its associated MAC aliasing procedure.  Yet another advantage is that
   following host mobility, the host does not need to refresh the
   default GW ARP/ND entry.

   If option 1 is used, an implementation MAY choose to auto-derive the
   anycast MAC address.  If auto-derivation is used, the anycast MAC
   MUST be auto-derived out of the following ranges (which are defined
   in [RFC5798]):

   *  Anycast IPv4 IRB case: 00-00-5E-00-01-{VRID}

   *  Anycast IPv6 IRB case: 00-00-5E-00-02-{VRID}

   Where the last octet is generated based on a configurable Virtual
   Router ID (VRID) (range 1-255).  If not explicitly configured, the
   default value for the VRID octet is '1'.  Auto-derivation of the
   anycast MAC can only be used if there is certainty that the auto-
   derived MAC does not collide with any customer MAC address.

   In addition to IP anycast addresses, IRB interfaces can be configured
   with non-anycast IP addresses for the purpose of OAM (such as sending
   a traceroute/ping to these interfaces) for both symmetric and
   asymmetric IRB.  These IP addresses need to be distributed as VPN
   routes when PEs operate in symmetric IRB mode.  However, they don't
   need to be distributed if the PEs are operating in asymmetric IRB
   mode as the non-anycast IP addresses are configured along with their
   individual MACs, and they get distributed via the EVPN route type 2
   advertisement.

   For option 1 -- irrespective of whether only the anycast MAC address
   or both anycast and non-anycast MAC addresses (where the latter one
   is used for the purpose of OAM) are used on the same IRB -- when a TS
   sends an ARP request or ND Neighbor Solicitation (NS) to the PE to
   which it is attached, the request is sent for the anycast IP address
   of the IRB interface associated with the TS's subnet.  The reply will
   use an anycast MAC address (in both the source MAC in the Ethernet
   header and sender hardware address in the payload).  For example, in
   Figure 4, TS1 is configured with the anycast IPx address as its
   default gateway IP address; thus, when it sends an ARP request for
   IPx (anycast IP address of the IRB interface for BT1), the PE1 sends
   an ARP reply with the MACx, which is the anycast MAC address of that
   IRB interface.  Traffic routed from IP-VRF1 to TS1 uses the anycast
   MAC address as the source MAC address.

4.2.  Operational Considerations

   Symmetric and asymmetric IRB modes may coexist in the same network,
   and an ingress PE that supports both forwarding modes for a given
   tenant can interwork with egress PEs that support either IRB mode.
   The egress PE will indicate the desired forwarding mode for a given
   host based on the presence of the Label2 field and the IP-VRF Route
   Target in the EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route.  If the Label2 field
   of the received MAC/IP Advertisement route for host H1 is non-zero,
   and one of its Route Targets identifies the IP-VRF, the ingress PE
   will use symmetric IRB mode when forwarding packets destined to H1.
   If the Label2 field is zero and the MAC/IP Advertisement route for H1
   does not carry any Route Target that identifies the IP-VRF, the
   ingress PE will use asymmetric mode when forwarding traffic to H1.

   As an example that illustrates the previous statement, suppose PE1
   and PE2 need to forward packets from TS2 to TS4 in Figure 4.  Since
   both PEs are attached to the bridge table of the destination host,
   symmetric and asymmetric IRB modes are both possible as long as the
   ingress PE, PE1, supports both modes.  The forwarding mode will
   depend on the mode configured in the egress PE, PE2.  That is:

   1.  If PE2 is configured for symmetric IRB mode, PE2 will advertise
       TS4 MAC/IP addresses in a MAC/IP Advertisement route with a non-
       zero Label2 field, e.g., Label2 = Lx, and a Route Target that
       identifies IP-VRF1 in PE1.  IP4 will be installed in PE1's IP-
       VRF1; TS4's ARP and MAC information will also be installed in
       PE1's IRB interface ARP table and BT1, respectively.  When a
       packet from TS2 destined to TS4 is looked up in PE1's IP-VRF
       route table, a longest prefix match lookup will find IP4 in the
       IP-VRF, and PE1 will forward using the symmetric IRB mode and
       Label Lx.

   2.  However, if PE2 is configured for asymmetric IRB mode, PE2 will
       advertise TS4 MAC/IP information in a MAC/IP Advertisement route
       with a zero Label2 field and no Route Target identifying IP-VRF1.
       In this case, PE2 will install TS4 information in its ARP table
       and BT1.  When a packet from TS2 to TS4 arrives at PE1, a longest
       prefix match on IP-VRF1's route table will yield the local IRB
       interface to BT1, where a subsequent ARP and bridge table lookup
       will provide the information for an asymmetric forwarding mode to
       PE2.

   Refer to [EVPN] for more information about interoperability between
   symmetric and asymmetric forwarding modes.

   The choice between symmetric or asymmetric mode is based on the
   operator's preference, and it is a trade-off between scale (which is
   better in the symmetric IRB mode) and control plane simplicity
   (asymmetric IRB mode simplifies the control plane).  In cases where a
   tenant has hosts for every subnet attached to all (or most of) the
   PEs, the ARP and MAC entries need to be learned by all PEs anyway;
   therefore, the asymmetric IRB mode simplifies the forwarding model
   and saves space in the IP-VRF route table, since host routes are not
   installed in the route table.  However, if the tenant does not need
   to stretch subnets (broadcast domains) to multiple PEs and inter-
   subnet forwarding is needed, the symmetric IRB model will save ARP
   and bridge table space in all the PEs (in comparison with the
   asymmetric IRB model).

5.  Symmetric IRB Procedures

5.1.  Control Plane - Advertising PE

   When a PE (e.g., PE1 in Figure 4 above) learns the MAC and IP address
   of a TS (e.g., via an ARP request or Neighbor Solicitation), it adds
   the MAC address to the corresponding MAC-VRF/BT of that tenant's
   subnet and adds the IP address to the IP-VRF for that tenant.
   Furthermore, it adds this TS's MAC and IP address association to its
   ARP table or Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) cache.  It then builds
   an EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route (type 2) as follows and advertises
   it to other PEs participating in that tenant's VPN.

   *  The Length field of the BGP EVPN Network Layer Reachability
      Information (NLRI) for an EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route MUST be
      either 40 (if the IPv4 address is carried) or 52 (if the IPv6
      address is carried).

   *  The Route Distinguisher (RD), Ethernet Segment Identifier,
      Ethernet Tag ID, MAC Address Length, MAC Address, IP Address
      Length, IP Address, and MPLS Label1 fields MUST be set per
      [RFC7432] and [RFC8365].

   *  The MPLS Label2 field is set to either an MPLS label or a VNI
      corresponding to the tenant's IP-VRF.  In the case of an MPLS
      label, this field is encoded as 3 octets, where the high-order 20
      bits contain the label value.

   Just as in [RFC7432], the RD, Ethernet Tag ID, MAC Address Length,
   MAC Address, IP Address Length, and IP Address fields are part of the
   route key used by BGP to compare routes.  The rest of the fields are
   not part of the route key.

   This route is advertised along with the following two extended
   communities:

   1.  Encapsulation Extended Community

   2.  EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community

   This route is advertised with one or more Encapsulation Extended
   Communities [RFC9012], one for each encapsulation type supported by
   the advertising PE.  If one or more encapsulation types require an
   Ethernet frame, a single EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community
   (Section 8.1) is also advertised.  This extended community specifies
   the MAC address to be used as the inner destination MAC address in an
   Ethernet frame sent to the advertising PE.

   This route MUST be advertised with two Route Targets, one
   corresponding to the MAC-VRF of the tenant's subnet and another
   corresponding to the tenant's IP-VRF.

5.2.  Control Plane - Receiving PE

   When a PE (e.g., PE2 in Figure 4 above) receives this EVPN MAC/IP
   Advertisement route, it performs the following:

   *  The MAC-VRF Route Target and Ethernet Tag, if the latter is non-
      zero, are used to identify the correct MAC-VRF and bridge table,
      and if they are found, the MAC address is imported.  The IP-VRF
      Route Target is used to identify the correct IP-VRF, and if it is
      found, the IP address is imported.

   If the MPLS Label2 field is non-zero, it means that this route is to
   be used for symmetric IRB, and the MPLS label2 value is to be used
   when sending a packet for this IP address to the advertising PE.

   If the receiving PE supports asymmetric IRB mode and receives this
   route with both the MAC-VRF and IP-VRF Route Targets but the MAC/IP
   Advertisement route does not include the MPLS Label2 field, then the
   receiving PE installs the MAC address in the corresponding MAC-VRF
   and the (IP, MAC) association in the ARP table for that tenant
   (identified by the corresponding IP-VRF Route Target).

   If the receiving PE receives this route with both the MAC-VRF and IP-
   VRF Route Targets, and if the receiving PE does not support either
   asymmetric or symmetric IRB modes but has the corresponding MAC-VRF,
   then it only imports the MAC address.

   If the receiving PE receives this route with both the MAC-VRF and IP-
   VRF Route Targets and the MAC/IP Advertisement route includes the
   MPLS Label2 field but the receiving PE only supports asymmetric IRB
   mode, then the receiving PE MUST ignore the MPLS Label2 field and
   install the MAC address in the corresponding MAC-VRF and (IP, MAC)
   association in the ARP table for that tenant (identified by the
   corresponding IP-VRF Route Target).

5.3.  Subnet Route Advertisement

   In the case of symmetric IRB, a Layer 3 subnet and IRB interface
   corresponding to a MAC-VRF/BT are required to be provisioned at a PE
   only if that PE has locally attached hosts in that subnet.  In order
   to enable inter-subnet routing across PEs in a deployment where not
   all subnets are provisioned at all PEs participating in an EVPN IRB
   instance, PEs MUST advertise local subnet routes as EVPN RT-5.  These
   subnet routes are required for bootstrapping host (IP, MAC) learning
   using gleaning procedures initiated by an inter-subnet data packet.

   That is, if a given host's (IP, MAC) association is unknown, and an
   ingress PE needs to send a packet to that host, then that ingress PE
   needs to know which egress PEs are attached to the subnet in which
   the host resides in order to send the packet to one of those PEs,
   causing the PE receiving the packet to probe for that host.  For
   example, consider a subnet A that is locally attached to PE1 and
   subnet B that is locally attached to PE2 and PE3.  Host A in subnet
   A, which is attached to PE1, initiates a data packet destined to host
   B in subnet B, which is attached to PE3.  If host B's (IP, MAC) has
   not yet been learned via either a gratuitous ARP OR a prior gleaning
   procedure, a new gleaning procedure MUST be triggered for host B's
   (IP, MAC) to be learned and advertised across the EVPN network.
   Since host B's subnet is not local to PE1, an IP lookup for host B at
   PE1 will not trigger this gleaning procedure for host B's (IP, MAC).
   Therefore, PE1 MUST learn subnet B's prefix route via EVPN RT-5
   advertised from PE2 and PE3, so it can route the packet to one of the
   PEs that have subnet B locally attached.  Once the packet is received
   at PE2 OR PE3, and the route lookup yields a glean result, an ARP
   request is triggered and flooded across the Layer 2 overlay.  This
   ARP request would be received and replied to by host B, resulting in
   host B (IP, MAC) learning at PE3 and its advertisement across the
   EVPN network.  Packets from host A to host B can now be routed
   directly from PE1 to PE3.  Advertisement of local subnet EVPN RT-5
   for an IP-VRF MAY typically be achieved via provisioning-connected
   route redistribution to BGP.

5.4.  Data Plane - Ingress PE

   When an Ethernet frame is received by an ingress PE (e.g., PE1 in
   Figure 4 above), the PE uses the AC ID (e.g., VLAN ID) to identify
   the associated MAC-VRF/BT, and it performs a lookup on the
   destination MAC address.  If the MAC address corresponds to its IRB
   interface MAC address, the ingress PE deduces that the packet must be
   inter-subnet routed.  Hence, the ingress PE performs an IP lookup in
   the associated IP-VRF table.  The lookup identifies the BGP next hop
   of the egress PE along with the tunnel/encapsulation type and the
   associated MPLS/VNI values.  The ingress PE also decrements the TTL /
   hop limit for that packet by one, and if it reaches zero, the ingress
   PE discards the packet.

   If the tunnel type is that of an MPLS or IP-only NVO tunnel, then the
   TS's IP packet is sent over the tunnel without any Ethernet header.
   However, if the tunnel type is that of an Ethernet NVO tunnel, then
   an Ethernet header needs to be added to the TS's IP packet.  The
   source MAC address of this inner Ethernet header is set to the
   ingress PE's router MAC address, and the destination MAC address of
   this inner Ethernet header is set to the egress PE's router MAC
   address learned via the EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community attached
   to the route.  The MPLS VPN label is set to the received label2 in
   the route.  In the case of the Ethernet NVO tunnel type, the VNI may
   be set one of two ways:

   downstream mode:  The VNI is set to the received label2 in the route,
      which is downstream assigned.

   global mode:  The VNI is set to the received label2 in the route,
      which is assigned domain-wide.  This VNI value from the received
      label2 MUST be the same as the locally configured VNI for the IP-
      VRF as all PEs in the NVO MUST be configured with the same IP-VRF
      VNI for this mode of operation.  If the received label2 value does
      not match the locally configured VNI value, the route MUST NOT be
      used, and an error message SHOULD be logged.

   PEs may be configured to operate in one of these two modes depending
   on the administrative domain boundaries across PEs participating in
   the NVO and the PE's capability to support downstream VNI mode.

   In the case of NVO tunnel encapsulation, the outer source and
   destination IP addresses are set to the ingress and egress PE BGP
   next-hop IP addresses, respectively.

5.5.  Data Plane - Egress PE

   When the tenant's MPLS or NVO encapsulated packet is received over an
   MPLS or NVO tunnel by the egress PE, the egress PE removes the NVO
   tunnel encapsulation and uses the VPN MPLS label (for MPLS
   encapsulation) or VNI (for NVO encapsulation) to identify the IP-VRF
   in which IP lookup needs to be performed.  If the VPN MPLS label or
   VNI identifies a MAC-VRF instead of an IP-VRF, then the procedures in
   Section 6.4 for asymmetric IRB are executed.

   The lookup in the IP-VRF identifies a local adjacency to the IRB
   interface associated with the egress subnet's MAC-VRF/BT.  The egress
   PE also decrements the TTL / hop limit for that packet by one, and if
   it reaches zero, the egress PE discards the packet.

   The egress PE gets the destination TS's MAC address for that TS's IP
   address from its ARP table or NDP cache.  It encapsulates the packet
   with that destination MAC address and a source MAC address
   corresponding to that IRB interface and sends the packet to its
   destination subnet MAC-VRF/BT.

   The destination MAC address lookup in the MAC-VRF/BT results in the
   local adjacency (e.g., local interface) over which the Ethernet frame
   is sent.

6.  Asymmetric IRB Procedures

6.1.  Control Plane - Advertising PE

   When a PE (e.g., PE1 in Figure 4 above) learns the MAC and IP address
   of an attached TS (e.g., via an ARP request or ND Neighbor
   Solicitation), it populates its MAC-VRF/BT, IP-VRF, and ARP table or
   NDP cache just as in the case for symmetric IRB.  It then builds an
   EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route (type 2) as follows and advertises it
   to other PEs participating in that tenant's VPN.

   *  The Length field of the BGP EVPN NLRI for an EVPN MAC/IP
      Advertisement route MUST be either 37 (if an IPv4 address is
      carried) or 49 (if an IPv6 address is carried).

   *  The RD, Ethernet Segment Identifier, Ethernet Tag ID, MAC Address
      Length, MAC Address, IP Address Length, IP Address, and MPLS
      Label1 fields MUST be set per [RFC7432] and [RFC8365].

   *  The MPLS Label2 field MUST NOT be included in this route.

   Just as in [RFC7432], the RD, Ethernet Tag ID, MAC Address Length,
   MAC Address, IP Address Length, and IP Address fields are part of the
   route key used by BGP to compare routes.  The rest of the fields are
   not part of the route key.

   This route is advertised along with the following extended community:

   *  Tunnel Type Extended Community

   For asymmetric IRB mode, the EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community is
   not needed because forwarding is performed using destination TS's MAC
   address, which is carried in this EVPN route type 2 advertisement.

   This route MUST always be advertised with the MAC-VRF Route Target.
   It MAY also be advertised with a second Route Target corresponding to
   the IP-VRF.

6.2.  Control Plane - Receiving PE

   When a PE (e.g., PE2 in Figure 4 above) receives this EVPN MAC/IP
   Advertisement route, it performs the following:

   *  Using the MAC-VRF Route Target, it identifies the corresponding
      MAC-VRF and imports the MAC address into it.  For asymmetric IRB
      mode, it is assumed that all PEs participating in a tenant's VPN
      are configured with all subnets (i.e., all VLANs) and
      corresponding MAC-VRFs/BTs even if there are no locally attached
      TSs for some of these subnets.  This is because the ingress PE
      needs to do forwarding based on the destination TS's MAC address
      and perform NVO tunnel encapsulation as the property of a lookup
      in the MAC-VRF/BT.

   *  If only the MAC-VRF Route Target is used, then the receiving PE
      uses the MAC-VRF Route Target to identify the corresponding IP-VRF
      -- i.e., many MAC-VRF Route Targets map to the same IP-VRF for a
      given tenant.  In this case, MAC-VRF may be used by the receiving
      PE to identify the corresponding IP-VRF via the IRB interface
      associated with the subnet MAC-VRF/BT.  In this case, the MAC-VRF
      Route Target may be used by the receiving PE to identify the
      corresponding IP-VRF.

   *  Using the MAC-VRF Route Target, the receiving PE identifies the
      corresponding ARP table or NDP cache for the tenant, and it adds
      an entry to the ARP table or NDP cache for the TS's MAC and IP
      address association.  It should be noted that the tenant's ARP
      table or NDP cache at the receiving PE is identified by all the
      MAC-VRF Route Targets for that tenant.

   *  If the IP-VRF Route Target is included, it may be used to import
      the route to IP-VRF.  If the IP-VRF Route Target is not included,
      MAC-VRF is used to derive the corresponding IP-VRF for import, as
      explained in the prior section.  In both cases, an IP-VRF route is
      installed with the TS MAC binding included in the received route.

   If the receiving PE receives the MAC/IP Advertisement route with the
   MPLS Label2 field but the receiving PE only supports asymmetric IRB
   mode, then the receiving PE MUST ignore the MPLS Label2 field and
   install the MAC address in the corresponding MAC-VRF and (IP, MAC)
   association in the ARP table or NDP cache for that tenant (with the
   IRB interface identified by the MAC-VRF).

6.3.  Data Plane - Ingress PE

   When an Ethernet frame is received by an ingress PE (e.g., PE1 in
   Figure 4 above), the PE uses the AC ID (e.g., VLAN ID) to identify
   the associated MAC-VRF/BT, and it performs a lookup on the
   destination MAC address.  If the MAC address corresponds to its IRB
   interface MAC address, the ingress PE deduces that the packet must be
   inter-subnet routed.  Hence, the ingress PE performs an IP lookup in
   the associated IP-VRF table.  The lookup identifies a local adjacency
   to the IRB interface associated with the egress subnet's MAC-VRF/
   bridge table.  The ingress PE also decrements the TTL / hop limit for
   that packet by one, and if it reaches zero, the ingress PE discards
   the packet.

   The ingress PE gets the destination TS's MAC address for that TS's IP
   address from its ARP table or NDP cache.  It encapsulates the packet
   with that destination MAC address and a source MAC address
   corresponding to that IRB interface and sends the packet to its
   destination subnet MAC-VRF/BT.

   The destination MAC address lookup in the MAC-VRF/BT results in a BGP
   next-hop address of the egress PE along with label1 (L2 VPN MPLS
   label or VNI).  The ingress PE encapsulates the packet using the
   Ethernet NVO tunnel of the choice (e.g., VXLAN or NVGRE) and sends
   the packet to the egress PE.  Because the packet forwarding is
   between the ingress PE's MAC-VRF/BT and the egress PE's MAC-VRF/
   bridge table, the packet encapsulation procedures follow that of
   [RFC7432] for MPLS and [RFC8365] for VXLAN encapsulations.

6.4.  Data Plane - Egress PE

   When a tenant's Ethernet frame is received over an NVO tunnel by the
   egress PE, the egress PE removes the NVO tunnel encapsulation and
   uses the VPN MPLS label (for MPLS encapsulation) or VNI (for NVO
   encapsulation) to identify the MAC-VRF/BT in which the MAC lookup
   needs to be performed.

   The MAC lookup results in a local adjacency (e.g., local interface)
   over which the packet needs to get sent.

   Note that the forwarding behavior on the egress PE is the same as the
   EVPN intra-subnet forwarding described in [RFC7432] for MPLS and
   [RFC8365] for NVO networks.  In other words, all the packet
   processing associated with the inter-subnet forwarding semantics is
   confined to the ingress PE for asymmetric IRB mode.

   It should also be noted that [RFC7432] provides a different level of
   granularity for the EVPN label.  Besides identifying the bridge
   domain table, it can be used to identify the egress interface or a
   destination MAC address on that interface.  If an EVPN label is used
   for an egress interface or individual MAC address identification,
   then no MAC lookup is needed in the egress PE for MPLS encapsulation,
   and the packet can be directly forwarded to the egress interface just
   based on the EVPN label lookup.

7.  Mobility Procedure

   When a TS moves from one NVE (aka source NVE) to another NVE (aka
   target NVE), it is important that the MAC Mobility procedures be
   properly executed and the corresponding MAC-VRF and IP-VRF tables on
   all participating NVEs be updated.  [RFC7432] describes the MAC
   Mobility procedures for L2-only services for both single-homed TS and
   multihomed TS.  This section describes the incremental procedures and
   BGP Extended Communities needed to handle the MAC Mobility for IRB.
   In order to place the emphasis on the differences between L2-only and
   IRB use cases, the incremental procedure is described for a single-
   homed TS with the expectation that the additional steps needed for a
   multihomed TS can be extended per Section 15 of [RFC7432].  This
   section describes mobility procedures for both symmetric and
   asymmetric IRB.  Although the language used in this section is for
   IPv4 ARP, it equally applies to IPv6 ND.

   When a TS moves from a source NVE to a target NVE, it can behave in
   one of the following three ways:

   1.  TS initiates an ARP request upon a move to the target NVE.

   2.  TS sends a data packet without first initiating an ARP request to
       the target NVE.

   3.  TS is a silent host and neither initiates an ARP request nor
       sends any packets.

   Depending on the expected TS's behavior, an NVE needs to handle at
   least the first option and should be able to handle the second and
   third options.  The following subsections describe the procedures for
   each scenario where it is assumed that the MAC and IP addresses of a
   TS have a one-to-one relationship (i.e., there is one IP address per
   MAC address and vice versa).  The procedures for host mobility
   detection in the presence of a many-to-one relationship is outside
   the scope of this document, and it is covered in [EXTENDED-MOBILITY].
   The "many-to-one relationship" refers to many host IP addresses
   corresponding to a single host MAC address or many host MAC addresses
   corresponding to a single IP address.  It should be noted that in the
   case of IPv6, a link-local IP address does not count in a many-to-one
   relationship because that address is confined to a single Ethernet
   segment, and it is not used for host mobility (i.e., by definition,
   host mobility is between two different Ethernet segments).
   Therefore, when an IPv6 host is configured with both a Global Unicast
   address (or a Unique Local address) and a link-local address, for the
   purpose of host mobility, it is considered with a single IP address.

7.1.  Initiating a Gratuitous ARP upon a Move

   In this scenario, when a TS moves from a source NVE to a target NVE,
   the TS initiates a gratuitous ARP upon the move to the target NVE.

   The target NVE, upon receiving this ARP message, updates its MAC-VRF,
   IP-VRF, and ARP table with the host MAC, IP, and local adjacency
   information (e.g., local interface).

   Since this NVE has previously learned the same MAC and IP addresses
   from the source NVE, it recognizes that there has been a MAC move,
   and it initiates MAC Mobility procedures per [RFC7432] by advertising
   an EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route with both the MAC and IP addresses
   filled in (per Sections 5.1 and 6.1) along with the MAC Mobility
   extended community, with the sequence number incremented by one.  The
   target NVE also exercises the MAC duplication detection procedure in
   Section 15.1 of [RFC7432].

   The source NVE, upon receiving this MAC/IP Advertisement route,
   realizes that the MAC has moved to the target NVE.  It updates its
   MAC-VRF and IP-VRF table accordingly with the adjacency information
   of the target NVE.  In the case of the asymmetric IRB, the source NVE
   also updates its ARP table with the received adjacency information,
   and in the case of the symmetric IRB, the source NVE removes the
   entry associated with the received (IP, MAC) from its local ARP
   table.  It then withdraws its EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route.
   Furthermore, it sends an ARP probe locally to ensure that the MAC is
   gone.  If an ARP response is received, the source NVE updates its ARP
   entry for that (IP, MAC) and re-advertises an EVPN MAC/IP
   Advertisement route for that (IP, MAC) along with the MAC Mobility
   extended community, with the sequence number incremented by one.  The
   source NVE also exercises the MAC duplication detection procedure in
   Section 15.1 of [RFC7432].

   All other remote NVE devices, upon receiving the MAC/IP Advertisement
   route with the MAC Mobility extended community, compare the sequence
   number in this advertisement with the one previously received.  If
   the new sequence number is greater than the old one, then they update
   the MAC/IP addresses of the TS in their corresponding MAC-VRF and IP-
   VRF tables to point to the target NVE.  Furthermore, upon receiving
   the MAC/IP withdraw for the TS from the source NVE, these remote PEs
   perform the cleanups for their BGP tables.

7.2.  Sending Data Traffic without an ARP Request

   In this scenario, when a TS moves from a source NVE to a target NVE,
   the TS starts sending data traffic without first initiating an ARP
   request.

   The target NVE, upon receiving the first data packet, learns the MAC
   address of the TS in the data plane and updates its MAC-VRF table
   with the MAC address and the local adjacency information (e.g., local
   interface) accordingly.  The target NVE realizes that there has been
   a MAC move because the same MAC address has been learned remotely
   from the source NVE.

   If EVPN-IRB NVEs are configured to advertise MAC-only routes in
   addition to MAC-and-IP EVPN routes, then the following steps are
   taken:

   *  The target NVE, upon learning this MAC address in the data plane,
      updates this MAC address entry in the corresponding MAC-VRF with
      the local adjacency information (e.g., local interface).  It also
      recognizes that this MAC has moved and initiates MAC Mobility
      procedures per [RFC7432] by advertising an EVPN MAC/IP
      Advertisement route with only the MAC address filled in along with
      the MAC Mobility extended community, with the sequence number
      incremented by one.

   *  The source NVE, upon receiving this MAC/IP Advertisement route,
      realizes that the MAC has moved to the new NVE.  It updates its
      MAC-VRF table with the adjacency information for that MAC address
      to point to the target NVE and withdraws its EVPN MAC/IP
      Advertisement route that has only the MAC address (if it has
      advertised such a route previously).  Furthermore, it searches for
      the corresponding MAC-IP entry and sends an ARP probe for this
      (IP, MAC) pair.  The ARP request message is sent both locally to
      all attached TSs in that subnet as well as to other NVEs
      participating in that subnet, including the target NVE.  Note that
      the PE needs to maintain a correlation between MAC and MAC-IP
      route entries in the MAC-VRF to accomplish this.

   *  The target NVE passes the ARP request to its locally attached TSs,
      and when it receives the ARP response, it updates its IP-VRF and
      ARP table with the host (IP, MAC) information.  It also sends an
      EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route with both the MAC and IP addresses
      filled in along with the MAC Mobility extended community, with the
      sequence number set to the same value as the one for the MAC-only
      Advertisement route it sent previously.

   *  When the source NVE receives the EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route,
      it updates its IP-VRF table with the new adjacency information
      (pointing to the target NVE).  In the case of the asymmetric IRB,
      the source NVE also updates its ARP table with the received
      adjacency information, and in the case of the symmetric IRB, the
      source NVE removes the entry associated with the received (IP,
      MAC) from its local ARP table.  Furthermore, it withdraws its
      previously advertised EVPN MAC/IP route with both the MAC and IP
      address fields filled in.

   *  All other remote NVE devices, upon receiving the MAC/IP
      Advertisement route with the MAC Mobility extended community,
      compare the sequence number in this advertisement with the one
      previously received.  If the new sequence number is greater than
      the old one, then they update the MAC/IP addresses of the TS in
      their corresponding MAC-VRF, IP-VRF, and ARP tables (in the case
      of asymmetric IRB) to point to the new NVE.  Furthermore, upon
      receiving the MAC/IP withdraw for the TS from the old NVE, these
      remote PEs perform the cleanups for their BGP tables.

   If an EVPN-IRB NVE is configured not to advertise MAC-only routes,
   then upon receiving the first data packet, it learns the MAC address
   of the TS and updates the MAC entry in the corresponding MAC-VRF
   table with the local adjacency information (e.g., local interface).
   It also realizes that there has been a MAC move because the same MAC
   address has been learned remotely from the source NVE.  It uses the
   local MAC route to find the corresponding local MAC-IP route and
   sends a unicast ARP request to the host.  When receiving an ARP
   response, it follows the procedure outlined in Section 7.1.  In the
   prior case, where MAC-only routes are also advertised, this procedure
   of triggering a unicast ARP probe at the target PE MAY also be used
   in addition to the source PE broadcast ARP probing procedure
   described earlier for better convergence.

7.3.  Silent Host

   In this scenario, when a TS moves from a source NVE to a target NVE,
   the TS is silent, and it neither initiates an ARP request nor sends
   any data traffic.  Therefore, neither the target nor the source NVEs
   are aware of the MAC move.

   On the source NVE, an age-out timer (for the silent host that has
   moved) is used to trigger an ARP probe.  This age-out timer can be
   either an ARP timer or a MAC age-out timer, and this is an
   implementation choice.  The ARP request gets sent both locally to all
   the attached TSs on that subnet as well as to all the remote NVEs
   (including the target NVE) participating in that subnet.  The source
   NVE also withdraws the EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route with only the
   MAC address (if it has previously advertised such a route).

   The target NVE passes the ARP request to its locally attached TSs,
   and when it receives the ARP response, it updates its MAC-VRF, IP-
   VRF, and ARP table with the host (IP, MAC) and local adjacency
   information (e.g., local interface).  It also sends an EVPN MAC/IP
   Advertisement route with both the MAC and IP address fields filled in
   along with the MAC Mobility extended community, with the sequence
   number incremented by one.

   When the source NVE receives the EVPN MAC/IP Advertisement route, it
   updates its IP-VRF table with the new adjacency information (pointing
   to the target NVE).  In the case of the asymmetric IRB, the source
   NVE also updates its ARP table with the received adjacency
   information, and in the case of the symmetric IRB, the source NVE
   removes the entry associated with the received (IP, MAC) from its
   local ARP table.  Furthermore, it withdraws its previously advertised
   EVPN MAC/IP route with both the MAC and IP address fields filled in.

   All other remote NVE devices, upon receiving the MAC/IP Advertisement
   route with the MAC Mobility extended community, compare the sequence
   number in this advertisement with the one previously received.  If
   the new sequence number is greater than the old one, then they update
   the MAC/IP addresses of the TS in their corresponding MAC-VRF, IP-
   VRF, and ARP (in the case of asymmetric IRB) tables to point to the
   new NVE.  Furthermore, upon receiving the MAC/IP withdraw for the TS
   from the old NVE, these remote PEs perform the cleanups for their BGP
   tables.

8.  BGP Encoding

   This document defines one new BGP Extended Community for EVPN.

8.1.  EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community

   A new EVPN BGP Extended Community called "EVPN Router's MAC" is
   introduced here.  This new extended community is a transitive
   extended community with a Type field of 0x06 (EVPN) and a Sub-Type
   field of 0x03.  It may be advertised along with the Encapsulation
   Extended Community defined in Section 4.1 of [RFC9012].

   The EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community is encoded as an 8-octet
   value as follows:

        0                   1                   2                   3
        0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       | Type=0x06     | Sub-Type=0x03 |        EVPN Router's MAC      |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
       |                    EVPN Router's MAC Cont'd                   |
       +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+

               Figure 5: EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community

   This extended community is used to carry the PE's MAC address for
   symmetric IRB scenarios, and it is sent with EVPN RT-2.  The
   advertising PE SHALL only attach a single EVPN Router's MAC Extended
   Community to a route.  In case the receiving PE receives more than
   one EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community with a route, it SHALL
   process the first one in the list and not store and propagate the
   others.

9.  Operational Models for Symmetric Inter-Subnet Forwarding

   The following sections describe two main symmetric IRB forwarding
   scenarios (within a DC -- i.e., intra-DC) along with the
   corresponding procedures.  In the following scenarios, without loss
   of generality, it is assumed that a given tenant is represented by a
   single IP-VPN instance.  Therefore, on a given PE, a tenant is
   represented by a single IP-VRF table and one or more MAC-VRF tables.

9.1.  IRB Forwarding on NVEs for Tenant Systems

   This section covers the symmetric IRB procedures for the scenario
   where each TS is attached to one or more NVEs, and its host IP and
   MAC addresses are learned by the attached NVEs and are distributed to
   all other NVEs that are interested in participating in both intra-
   subnet and inter-subnet communications with that TS.

   In this scenario, without loss of generality, it is assumed that NVEs
   operate in VLAN-based service interface mode with one bridge table(s)
   per MAC-VRF.  Thus, for a given tenant, an NVE has one MAC-VRF for
   each tenant subnet (e.g., each VLAN) that is configured for extension
   via VXLAN or NVGRE encapsulation.  In the case of VLAN-aware
   bundling, each MAC-VRF consists of multiple bridge tables (e.g., one
   bridge table per VLAN).  The MAC-VRFs on an NVE for a given tenant
   are associated with an IP-VRF corresponding to that tenant (or IP-VPN
   instance) via their IRB interfaces.

   Since VXLAN and NVGRE encapsulations require an inner Ethernet header
   (inner MAC SA/DA) and since a TS MAC address cannot be used for
   inter-subnet traffic, the ingress NVE's MAC address is used as an
   inner MAC SA.  The NVE's MAC address is the device MAC address, and
   it is common across all MAC-VRFs and IP-VRFs.  This MAC address is
   advertised using the new EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community
   (Section 8.1).

   Figure 6 below illustrates this scenario, where a given tenant (e.g.,
   an IP-VPN instance) has three subnets represented by MAC-VRF1, MAC-
   VRF2, and MAC-VRF3 across two NVEs.  There are five TSs that are
   associated with these three MAC-VRFs -- i.e., TS1, TS4, and TS5 are
   on the same subnet (e.g., the same MAC-VRF/VLAN).  TS1 and TS5 are
   associated with MAC-VRF1 on NVE1, while TS4 is associated with MAC-
   VRF1 on NVE2.  TS2 is associated with MAC-VRF2 on NVE1, and TS3 is
   associated with MAC-VRF3 on NVE2.  MAC-VRF1 and MAC-VRF2 on NVE1 are,
   in turn, associated with IP-VRF1 on NVE1, and MAC-VRF1 and MAC-VRF3
   on NVE2 are associated with IP-VRF1 on NVE2.  When TS1, TS5, and TS4
   exchange traffic with each other, only the L2 forwarding (bridging)
   part of the IRB solution is exercised because all these TSs belong to
   the same subnet.  However, when TS1 wants to exchange traffic with
   TS2 or TS3, which belong to different subnets, both the bridging and
   routing parts of the IRB solution are exercised.  The following
   subsections describe the control and data plane operations for this
   IRB scenario in detail.

                     NVE1         +---------+
               +-------------+    |         |
       TS1-----|         MACx|    |         |        NVE2
     (M1/IP1)  |(MAC-        |    |         |   +-------------+
       TS5-----| VRF1)\      |    |  MPLS/  |   |MACy  (MAC-  |-----TS3
     (M5/IP5)  |       \     |    |  VXLAN/ |   |     / VRF3) | (M3/IP3)
               |    (IP-VRF1)|----|  NVGRE  |---|(IP-VRF1)    |
               |       /     |    |         |   |     \       |
       TS2-----|(MAC- /      |    |         |   |      (MAC-  |-----TS4
     (M2/IP2)  | VRF2)       |    |         |   |       VRF1) | (M4/IP4)
               +-------------+    |         |   +-------------+
                                  |         |
                                  +---------+

            Figure 6: IRB Forwarding on NVEs for Tenant Systems

9.1.1.  Control Plane Operation

   Each NVE advertises a MAC/IP Advertisement route (i.e., route type 2)
   for each of its TSs with the following field set:

   *  RD and Ethernet Segment Identifier (ESI) per [RFC7432]

   *  Ethernet Tag = 0 (assuming VLAN-based service)

   *  MAC Address Length = 48

   *  MAC Address = Mi (where i = 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) in Figure 6, above

   *  IP Address Length = 32 or 128

   *  IP Address = IPi (where i = 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5) in Figure 6, above

   *  Label1 = MPLS label or VNI corresponding to MAC-VRF

   *  Label2 = MPLS label or VNI corresponding to IP-VRF

   Each NVE advertises an EVPN RT-2 route with two Route Targets (one
   corresponding to its MAC-VRF and the other corresponding to its IP-
   VRF).  Furthermore, the EVPN RT-2 is advertised with two BGP Extended
   Communities.  The first BGP Extended Community identifies the tunnel
   type, and it is called "Encapsulation Extended Community" as defined
   in [RFC9012], and the second BGP Extended Community includes the MAC
   address of the NVE (e.g., MACx for NVE1 or MACy for NVE2) as defined
   in Section 8.1.  The EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community MUST be
   added when the Ethernet NVO tunnel is used.  If the IP NVO tunnel
   type is used, then there is no need to send this second Extended
   Community.  It should be noted that the IP NVO tunnel type is only
   applicable to symmetric IRB procedures.

   Upon receiving this advertisement, the receiving NVE performs the
   following:

   *  It uses Route Targets corresponding to its MAC-VRF and IP-VRF for
      identifying these tables and subsequently importing the MAC and IP
      addresses into them, respectively.

   *  It imports the MAC address from the MAC/IP Advertisement route
      into the MAC-VRF with the BGP next-hop address as the underlay
      tunnel destination address (e.g., VTEP DA for VXLAN encapsulation)
      and label1 as the VNI for VXLAN encapsulation or an EVPN label for
      MPLS encapsulation.

   *  If the route carries the new EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community
      and if the receiving NVE uses an Ethernet NVO tunnel, then the
      receiving NVE imports the IP address into IP-VRF with NVE's MAC
      address (from the new EVPN Router's MAC Extended Community) as the
      inner MAC DA, the BGP next-hop address as the underlay tunnel
      destination address, the VTEP DA for VXLAN encapsulation, and
      label2 as the IP-VPN VNI for VXLAN encapsulation.

   *  If the receiving NVE uses MPLS encapsulation, then the receiving
      NVE imports the IP address into IP-VRF with the BGP next-hop
      address as the underlay tunnel destination address and label2 as
      the IP-VPN label for MPLS encapsulation.

   If the receiving NVE receives an EVPN RT-2 with only label1 and only
   a single Route Target corresponding to IP-VRF; an EVPN RT-2 with only
   a single Route Target corresponding to MAC-VRF but with both label1
   and label2; or an EVPN RT-2 with a MAC address length of zero, then
   it MUST use the treat-as-withdraw approach [RFC7606] and SHOULD log
   an error message.

9.1.2.  Data Plane Operation

   The following description of the data plane operation describes just
   the logical functions, and the actual implementation may differ.
   Let's consider the data plane operation when TS1 in subnet-1 (MAC-
   VRF1) on NVE1 wants to send traffic to TS3 in subnet-3 (MAC-VRF3) on
   NVE2.

   *  NVE1 receives a packet with the MAC DA corresponding to the MAC-
      VRF1 IRB interface on NVE1 (the interface between MAC-VRF1 and IP-
      VRF1) and the VLAN tag corresponding to MAC-VRF1.

   *  Upon receiving the packet, the NVE1 uses the VLAN tag to identify
      the MAC-VRF1.  It then looks up the MAC DA and forwards the frame
      to its IRB interface.

   *  The Ethernet header of the packet is stripped, and the packet is
      fed to the IP-VRF, where an IP lookup is performed on the
      destination IP address.  NVE1 also decrements the TTL / hop limit
      for that packet by one, and if it reaches zero, NVE1 discards the
      packet.  This lookup yields the outgoing NVO tunnel and the
      required encapsulation.  If the encapsulation is for the Ethernet
      NVO tunnel, then it includes the egress NVE's MAC address as the
      inner MAC DA, the egress NVE's IP address (e.g., BGP next-hop
      address) as the VTEP DA, and the VPN-ID as the VNI.  The inner MAC
      SA and VTEP SA are set to NVE's MAC and IP addresses,
      respectively.  If it is an MPLS encapsulation, then the
      corresponding EVPN and LSP labels are added to the packet.  The
      packet is then forwarded to the egress NVE.

   *  If the egress NVE receives a packet from the Ethernet NVO tunnel
      (e.g., it is VXLAN encapsulated), then it removes the Ethernet
      header.  Since the inner MAC DA is the egress NVE's MAC address,
      the egress NVE knows that it needs to perform an IP lookup.  It
      uses the VNI to identify the IP-VRF table.  If the packet is MPLS
      encapsulated, then the EVPN label lookup identifies the IP-VRF
      table.  Next, an IP lookup is performed for the destination TS
      (TS3), which results in an access-facing IRB interface over which
      the packet is sent.  Before sending the packet over this
      interface, the ARP table is consulted to get the destination TS's
      MAC address.  NVE2 also decrements the TTL / hop limit for that
      packet by one, and if it reaches zero, NVE2 discards the packet.

   *  The IP packet is encapsulated with an Ethernet header, with the
      MAC SA set to that of the IRB interface MAC address (i.e., the IRB
      interface between MAC-VRF3 and IP-VRF1 on NVE2) and the MAC DA set
      to that of the destination TS (TS3) MAC address.  The packet is
      sent to the corresponding MAC-VRF (i.e., MAC-VRF3) and, after a
      lookup of MAC DA, is forwarded to the destination TS (TS3) over
      the corresponding interface.

   In this symmetric IRB scenario, inter-subnet traffic between NVEs
   will always use the IP-VRF VNI/MPLS label.  For instance, traffic
   from TS2 to TS4 will be encapsulated by NVE1 using NVE2's IP-VRF VNI/
   MPLS label, as long as TS4's host IP is present in NVE1's IP-VRF.

9.2.  IRB Forwarding on NVEs for Subnets behind Tenant Systems

   This section covers the symmetric IRB procedures for the scenario
   where some TSs support one or more subnets and these TSs are
   associated with one or more NVEs.  Therefore, besides the
   advertisement of MAC/IP addresses for each TS, which can be
   multihomed with All-Active redundancy mode, the associated NVE needs
   to also advertise the subnets statically configured on each TS.

   The main difference between this solution and the previous one is the
   additional advertisement corresponding to each subnet.  These subnet
   advertisements are accomplished using the EVPN IP Prefix route
   defined in [RFC9136].  These subnet prefixes are advertised with the
   IP address of their associated TS (which is in an overlay address
   space) as their next hop.  The receiving NVEs perform recursive route
   resolution to resolve the subnet prefix with its advertising NVE so
   that they know which NVE to forward the packets to when they are
   destined for that subnet prefix.

   The advantage of this recursive route resolution is that when a TS
   moves from one NVE to another, there is no need to re-advertise any
   of the subnet prefixes for that TS.  All that is needed is to
   advertise the IP/MAC addresses associated with the TS itself and
   exercise the MAC Mobility procedures for that TS.  The recursive
   route resolution automatically takes care of the updates for the
   subnet prefixes of that TS.

   Figure 7 illustrates this scenario where a given tenant (e.g., an IP-
   VPN service) has three subnets represented by MAC-VRF1, MAC-VRF2, and
   MAC-VRF3 across two NVEs.  There are four TSs associated with these
   three MAC-VRFs -- i.e., TS1 is connected to MAC-VRF1 on NVE1, TS2 is
   connected to MAC-VRF2 on NVE1, TS3 is connected to MAC-VRF3 on NVE2,
   and TS4 is connected to MAC-VRF1 on NVE2.  TS1 has two subnet
   prefixes (SN1 and SN2), and TS3 has a single subnet prefix (SN3).
   The MAC-VRFs on each NVE are associated with their corresponding IP-
   VRF using their IRB interfaces.  When TS4 and TS1 exchange intra-
   subnet traffic, only the L2 forwarding (bridging) part of the IRB
   solution is used (i.e., the traffic only goes through their MAC-
   VRFs); however, when TS3 wants to forward traffic to SN1 or SN2
   sitting behind TS1 (inter-subnet traffic), then both the bridging and
   routing parts of the IRB solution are exercised (i.e., the traffic
   goes through the corresponding MAC-VRFs and IP-VRFs).  If TS4, for
   example, wants to reach SN1, it uses its default route and sends the
   packet to the MAC address associated with the IRB interface on NVE2;
   NVE2 then performs an IP lookup in its IP-VRF and finds an entry for
   SN1.  The following subsections describe the control and data plane
   operations for this IRB scenario in detail.

                                NVE1      +----------+
        SN1--+          +-------------+   |          |
             |--TS1-----|(MAC- \      |   |          |
        SN2--+ M1/IP1   | VRF1) \     |   |          |
                        |     (IP-VRF)|---|          |
                        |       /     |   |          |
                TS2-----|(MAC- /      |   |  MPLS/   |
               M2/IP2   | VRF2)       |   |  VXLAN/  |
                        +-------------+   |  NVGRE   |
                        +-------------+   |          |
        SN3--+--TS3-----|(MAC-\       |   |          |
               M3/IP3   | VRF3)\      |   |          |
                        |     (IP-VRF)|---|          |
                        |       /     |   |          |
                TS4-----|(MAC- /      |   |          |
               M4/IP4   | VRF1)       |   |          |
                        +-------------+   +----------+
                               NVE2

          Figure 7: IRB Forwarding on NVEs for Subnets behind TSs

   Note that in Figure 7, above, SN1 and SN2 are configured on NVE1,
   which then advertises each in an IP Prefix route.  Similarly, SN3 is
   configured on NVE2, which then advertises it in an IP Prefix route.

9.2.1.  Control Plane Operation

   Each NVE advertises a route type 5 (EVPN RT-5, IP Prefix route
   defined in [RFC9136]) for each of its subnet prefixes with the IP
   address of its TS as the next hop (Gateway Address field) as follows:

   *  RD associated with the IP-VRF

   *  ESI = 0

   *  Ethernet Tag = 0

   *  IP Prefix Length = 0 to 32 or 0 to 128

   *  IP Prefix = SNi

   *  Gateway Address = IPi (IP address of TS)

   *  MPLS Label = 0

   This EVPN RT-5 is advertised with one or more Route Targets
   associated with the IP-VRF from which the route is originated.

   Each NVE also advertises an EVPN RT-2 (MAC/IP Advertisement route)
   along with its associated Route Targets and Extended Communities for
   each of its TSs exactly as described in Section 9.1.1.

   Upon receiving the EVPN RT-5 advertisement, the receiving NVE
   performs the following:

   *  It uses the Route Target to identify the corresponding IP-VRF.

   *  It imports the IP prefix into its corresponding IP-VRF configured
      with an import RT that is one of the RTs being carried by the EVPN
      RT-5 route, along with the IP address of the associated TS as its
      next hop.

   When receiving the EVPN RT-2 advertisement, the receiving NVE imports
   the MAC/IP addresses of the TS into the corresponding MAC-VRF and IP-
   VRF per Section 9.1.1.  When both routes exist, recursive route
   resolution is performed to resolve the IP prefix (received in EVPN
   RT-5) to its corresponding NVE's IP address (e.g., its BGP next hop).
   The BGP next hop will be used as the underlay tunnel destination
   address (e.g., VTEP DA for VXLAN encapsulation), and the EVPN
   Router's MAC will be used as the inner MAC for VXLAN encapsulation.

9.2.2.  Data Plane Operation

   The following description of the data plane operation describes just
   the logical functions, and the actual implementation may differ.
   Let's consider the data plane operation when a host in SN1 behind TS1
   wants to send traffic to a host in SN3 behind TS3.

   *  TS1 sends a packet with MAC DA corresponding to the MAC-VRF1 IRB
      interface of NVE1 and a VLAN tag corresponding to MAC-VRF1.

   *  Upon receiving the packet, the ingress NVE1 uses the VLAN tag to
      identify the MAC-VRF1.  It then looks up the MAC DA and forwards
      the frame to its IRB interface as in Section 9.1.1.

   *  The Ethernet header of the packet is stripped, and the packet is
      fed to the IP-VRF, where an IP lookup is performed on the
      destination address.  This lookup yields the fields needed for
      VXLAN encapsulation with NVE2's MAC address as the inner MAC DA,
      NVE2's IP address as the VTEP DA, and the VNI.  The MAC SA is set
      to NVE1's MAC address, and the VTEP SA is set to NVE1's IP
      address.  NVE1 also decrements the TTL / hop limit for that packet
      by one, and if it reaches zero, NVE1 discards the packet.

   *  The packet is then encapsulated with the proper header based on
      the above info and is forwarded to the egress NVE (NVE2).

   *  On the egress NVE (NVE2), assuming the packet is VXLAN
      encapsulated, the VXLAN and the inner Ethernet headers are
      removed, and the resultant IP packet is fed to the IP-VRF
      associated with that VNI.

   *  Next, a lookup is performed based on the IP DA (which is in SN3)
      in the associated IP-VRF of NVE2.  The IP lookup yields the
      access-facing IRB interface over which the packet needs to be
      sent.  Before sending the packet over this interface, the ARP
      table is consulted to get the destination TS (TS3) MAC address.
      NVE2 also decrements the TTL / hop limit for that packet by one,
      and if it reaches zero, NVE2 discards the packet.

   *  The IP packet is encapsulated with an Ethernet header with the MAC
      SA set to that of the access-facing IRB interface of the egress
      NVE (NVE2), and the MAC DA is set to that of the destination TS
      (TS3) MAC address.  The packet is sent to the corresponding MAC-
      VRF3 and, after a lookup of MAC DA, is forwarded to the
      destination TS (TS3) over the corresponding interface.

10.  Security Considerations

   The security considerations for Layer 2 forwarding in this document
   follow those of [RFC7432] for MPLS encapsulation and those of
   [RFC8365] for VXLAN or NVGRE encapsulations.  This section describes
   additional considerations.

   This document describes a set of procedures for inter-subnet
   forwarding of tenant traffic across PEs (or NVEs).  These procedures
   include both Layer 2 forwarding and Layer 3 routing on a packet-by-
   packet basis.  The security consideration for Layer 3 routing in this
   document follows that of [RFC4365], with the exception of the
   application of routing protocols between CEs and PEs.  Contrary to
   [RFC4364], this document does not describe route distribution
   techniques between CEs and PEs but rather considers the CEs as TSs or
   VAs that do not run dynamic routing protocols.  This can be
   considered a security advantage, since dynamic routing protocols can
   be blocked on the NVE/PE ACs, not allowing the tenant to interact
   with the infrastructure's dynamic routing protocols.

   The VPN scheme described in this document does not provide the
   quartet of security properties mentioned in [RFC4365]
   (confidentiality protection, source authentication, integrity
   protection, and replay protection).  If these are desired, they must
   be provided by mechanisms that are outside the scope of the VPN
   mechanisms.

   In this document, the EVPN RT-5 is used for certain scenarios.  This
   route uses an Overlay Index that requires a recursive resolution to a
   different EVPN route (an EVPN RT-2).  Because of this, it is worth
   noting that any action that ends up filtering or modifying the EVPN
   RT-2 route used to convey the Overlay Indexes will modify the
   resolution of the EVPN RT-5 and therefore the forwarding of packets
   to the remote subnet.

11.  IANA Considerations

   IANA has allocated Sub-Type value 0x03 in the "EVPN Extended
   Community Sub-Types" registry as follows:

   +================+======================================+===========+
   | Sub-Type Value | Name                                 | Reference |
   +================+======================================+===========+
   | 0x03           | EVPN Router's MAC                    | RFC 9135  |
   |                | Extended Community                   |           |
   +----------------+--------------------------------------+-----------+

                                  Table 1

   This document has been listed as an additional reference for the MAC/
   IP Advertisement route in the "EVPN Route Types" registry.

12.  References

12.1.  Normative References

   [RFC2119]  Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
              Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC2119, March 1997,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc2119>.

   [RFC4364]  Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
              Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, DOI 10.17487/RFC4364, February
              2006, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4364>.

   [RFC7432]  Sajassi, A., Ed., Aggarwal, R., Bitar, N., Isaac, A.,
              Uttaro, J., Drake, J., and W. Henderickx, "BGP MPLS-Based
              Ethernet VPN", RFC 7432, DOI 10.17487/RFC7432, February
              2015, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7432>.

   [RFC7606]  Chen, E., Ed., Scudder, J., Ed., Mohapatra, P., and K.
              Patel, "Revised Error Handling for BGP UPDATE Messages",
              RFC 7606, DOI 10.17487/RFC7606, August 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7606>.

   [RFC8174]  Leiba, B., "Ambiguity of Uppercase vs Lowercase in RFC
              2119 Key Words", BCP 14, RFC 8174, DOI 10.17487/RFC8174,
              May 2017, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8174>.

   [RFC8365]  Sajassi, A., Ed., Drake, J., Ed., Bitar, N., Shekhar, R.,
              Uttaro, J., and W. Henderickx, "A Network Virtualization
              Overlay Solution Using Ethernet VPN (EVPN)", RFC 8365,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC8365, March 2018,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8365>.

   [RFC9012]  Patel, K., Van de Velde, G., Sangli, S., and J. Scudder,
              "The BGP Tunnel Encapsulation Attribute", RFC 9012,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC9012, April 2021,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9012>.

   [RFC9136]  Rabadan, J., Ed., Henderickx, W., Drake, J., Lin, W., and
              A. Sajassi, "IP Prefix Advertisement in Ethernet VPN
              (EVPN)", RFC 9136, DOI 10.17487/RFC9136, October 2021,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc9136>.

12.2.  Informative References

   [EVPN]     Krattiger, L., Ed., Sajassi, A., Ed., Thoria, S., Rabadan,
              J., and J. Drake, "EVPN Interoperability Modes", Work in
              Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-bess-evpn-modes-
              interop-00, 26 May 2021,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-
              evpn-modes-interop-00>.

   [EXTENDED-MOBILITY]
              Malhotra, N., Ed., Sajassi, A., Pattekar, A., Rabadan, J.,
              Lingala, A., and J. Drake, "Extended Mobility Procedures
              for EVPN-IRB", Work in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-
              ietf-bess-evpn-irb-extended-mobility-07, 2 October 2021,
              <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-bess-
              evpn-irb-extended-mobility-07>.

   [RFC4365]  Rosen, E., "Applicability Statement for BGP/MPLS IP
              Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4365,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC4365, February 2006,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4365>.

   [RFC5798]  Nadas, S., Ed., "Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol (VRRP)
              Version 3 for IPv4 and IPv6", RFC 5798,
              DOI 10.17487/RFC5798, March 2010,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc5798>.

   [RFC7348]  Mahalingam, M., Dutt, D., Duda, K., Agarwal, P., Kreeger,
              L., Sridhar, T., Bursell, M., and C. Wright, "Virtual
              eXtensible Local Area Network (VXLAN): A Framework for
              Overlaying Virtualized Layer 2 Networks over Layer 3
              Networks", RFC 7348, DOI 10.17487/RFC7348, August 2014,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7348>.

   [RFC7365]  Lasserre, M., Balus, F., Morin, T., Bitar, N., and Y.
              Rekhter, "Framework for Data Center (DC) Network
              Virtualization", RFC 7365, DOI 10.17487/RFC7365, October
              2014, <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7365>.

   [RFC7637]  Garg, P., Ed. and Y. Wang, Ed., "NVGRE: Network
              Virtualization Using Generic Routing Encapsulation",
              RFC 7637, DOI 10.17487/RFC7637, September 2015,
              <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7637>.

   [VXLAN-GPE]
              Maino, F., Ed., Kreeger, L., Ed., and U. Elzur, Ed.,
              "Generic Protocol Extension for VXLAN (VXLAN-GPE)", Work
              in Progress, Internet-Draft, draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-12,
              22 September 2021, <https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/
              draft-ietf-nvo3-vxlan-gpe-12>.

Acknowledgements

   The authors would like to thank Sami Boutros, Jeffrey Zhang,
   Krzysztof Szarkowicz, Lukas Krattiger and Neeraj Malhotra for their
   valuable comments.  The authors would also like to thank Linda
   Dunbar, Florin Balus, Yakov Rekhter, Wim Henderickx, Lucy Yong, and
   Dennis Cai for their feedback and contributions.

Authors' Addresses

   Ali Sajassi
   Cisco Systems

   Email: sajassi@cisco.com


   Samer Salam
   Cisco Systems

   Email: ssalam@cisco.com


   Samir Thoria
   Cisco Systems

   Email: sthoria@cisco.com


   John E Drake
   Juniper

   Email: jdrake@juniper.net


   Jorge Rabadan
   Nokia

   Email: jorge.rabadan@nokia.com