The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Problem Statement and Architecture for Information Exchange Between Interconnected Traffic Engineered Networks' (draft-ietf-teas-interconnected-te-info-exchange-07.txt) as Best Current Practice This document is the product of the Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Alia Atlas and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-interconnected-te-info-exchange/ Technical Summary This document sets out the problem statement for the exchange of TE information between interconnected TE networks in support of end-to- end TE path establishment and describes the best current practice architecture to meet this problem statement. For reasons that are explained in the document, this work is limited to simple TE constraints and information that determine TE reachability. Working Group Summary This document has been in process for a long time. There were many heated discussions that eventually led to the this document which has a high degree of support. Recent delays were largely editorial rather than in content. Document Quality This document has been discussed and reviewed by the WG many times. It has a wide scope and covers it comprehensively. Having this information consolidated in a single place has real value to the WG, users and vendors. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd? Lou Berger Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
