This document updates RFC 4090 for the Resource Reservation Protocol
(RSVP) Traffic Engineering (TE) procedures defined for facility
backup protection. The updates include extensions that reduce the
amount of signaling and processing that occurs during Fast Reroute
(FRR); as a result, scalability when undergoing FRR convergence after
a link or node failure is improved. These extensions allow the RSVP
message exchange between the Point of Local Repair (PLR) and the
Merge Point (MP) nodes to be independent of the number of protected
Label Switched Paths (LSPs) traversing between them when facility
bypass FRR protection is used. The signaling extensions are fully
backwards compatible with nodes that do not support them.