The IESG has received a request from the Pseudowire And LDP-enabled Services WG (pals) to consider the following document: - 'Multi-chassis Passive Optical Network (PON) Protection in MPLS' <draft-ietf-pals-mc-pon-04.txt> as Proposed 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 2016-09-06. 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 MPLS is being deployed deeper into operator networks, often to or past the access network node. Separately network access nodes such as Passive Optical Network (PON) Optical Line Terminations (OLTs) have evolved to support first-mile access protection, where one or more physical OLTs provide first-mile diversity to the customer edge. Multi-homing support is needed on the MPLS-enabled PON OLT to provide resiliency for provided services. This document describes the multi-chassis PON protection architecture in MPLS and also specifies the Inter-Chassis Communication Protocol (ICCP) extension to support it. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pals-mc-pon/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pals-mc-pon/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2371/
