The IESG has received a request from the Pseudowire And LDP-enabled Services WG (pals) to consider the following document: - 'Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance using the Label Distribution Protocol' <draft-ietf-pals-rfc4447bis-05.txt> as Internet Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-09-21. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract Layer 2 services (such as Frame Relay, Asynchronous Transfer Mode, and Ethernet) can be "emulated" over an MPLS backbone by encapsulating the Layer 2 Protocol Data Units (PDU) and then transmitting them over "pseudowires". It is also possible to use pseudowires to provide low-rate Time Division Multiplexed and Synchronous Optical NETworking circuit emulation over an MPLS-enabled network. This document specifies a protocol for establishing and maintaining the pseudowires, using extensions to the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP). Procedures for encapsulating Layer 2 PDUs are specified in a set of companion documents. This document has been written to address errata in a previous version of this standard. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pals-rfc4447bis/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pals-rfc4447bis/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D. The document contains these normative downward references. See RFC 3967 for additional information: rfc3032: MPLS Label Stack Encoding (Proposed Standard - IETF stream) rfc5036: LDP Specification (Draft Standard - IETF stream) rfc7358: Label Advertisement Discipline for LDP Forwarding Equivalence Classes (FECs) (Proposed Standard - IETF stream) Note that some of these references may already be listed in the acceptable Downref Registry.
