The IESG has approved the following document: - 'GMPLS OSPF-TE Extensions in support of Flexi-grid DWDM networks' (draft-ietf-ccamp-flexible-grid-ospf-ext-09.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Common Control and Measurement Plane 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-ccamp-flexible-grid-ospf-ext/ Technical Summary The document defines necessary OSPF-TE extensions for GMPLS in order to support new flexible grid data plane functionality that is defined in ITU-T Recommendation G.694.1 for DWDM networks. Currently, OSPF-TE for GMPLS can only be used for fixed grid DWDM networks. The document extends RFC4203 and RFC7580. Working Group Summary This document has been reviewed by the CCAMP working group and received comments at IETF meetings and on the mailing list. There were no problems with reaching WG consensus. Document Quality The work has had contributions from a larger group of people. Additionally, the work has had external review form the IDEALIST EU project. One of the IDEALIST goals is to foster elastic optical networks equipped with a multi-domain and multi-technology control plane enabling adaptive network and service interworking. Several optical equipment vendors are participating in this project. A significant number of vendors are considering the implementation or have already an implementation of the protocol extensions for their DWDM products supporting the flexible grid. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Dieter Beller Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
