BESS Working Group S. Mohanty Internet-Draft K. Patel Intended status: Standards Track A. Sajassi Expires: April 13, 2018 Cisco Systems, Inc. J. Drake Juniper Networks, Inc. A. Przygienda Juniper October 10, 2017 A new Designated Forwarder Election for the EVPN draft-ietf-bess-evpn-df-election-03 Abstract This document describes an improved EVPN Designated Forwarder Election (DF) algorithm which can be used to enhance operational experience in terms of convergence speed and robustness over a WAN deploying EVPN Status of This Memo This Internet-Draft is submitted in full conformance with the provisions of BCP 78 and BCP 79 . Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet- Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/ . Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." This Internet-Draft will expire on April 13, 2017. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2015 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trust's Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (http://trustee.ietf.org/license-info ) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect Mohanty, et al. Expires April 13, 2018 [Page 1] Internet-Draft An Improved EVPN DF Election Algorithm October 2017