The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Virtual Private Wire Service support in Ethernet VPN' (draft-ietf-bess-evpn-vpws-14.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the BGP 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-bess-evpn-vpws/ Technical Summary This document describes how EVPN can be used to support Virtual Private Wire Service (VPWS) in MPLS/IP networks. EVPN enables the following characteristics for VPWS: single-active as well as all- active multi-homing with flow-based load-balancing, eliminates the need for traditional way of Pseudowire (PW) signaling, and provides fast protection convergence upon node or link failure. Working Group Summary This document was processed by the bess WG; nothing specific to highlight. Document Quality At least 3 major vendors have implemented this specification. Personnel Document Shepherd: Jeffrey Zhang (zzhang@juniper.net) Responsible Area Director: Alvaro Retana (aretana@cisco.com)
