The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Multi-chassis Passive Optical Network (PON) Protection in MPLS' (draft-ietf-pals-mc-pon-05.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Pseudowire And LDP-enabled Services 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-pals-mc-pon/ Technical Summary 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. Working Group Summary The WG process was smooth. Document Quality Four service providers were document authors or significant contributors, driving the work. At least one vendor is in the process of planning an implementation for use in mobile backhaul networks. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Andy Malis Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
