The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Updates to MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Linear Protection in Automatic Protection Switching (APS) Mode' (draft-ietf-mpls-tp-aps-updates-04.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Multiprotocol Label Switching 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-mpls-tp-aps-updates/ Technical Summary The document contains updates to MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) linear protection in Automatic Protection Switching (APS) mode defined in RFC 7271. The updates provide rules related to the initialization of the Protection State Coordination (PSC) Control Logic. When PSC operates in APS mode, the state machine is part of the control logic. The document also clarifies some operations related to state transition table lookup. Working Group Summary The interest in MPLS-TP is slightly waning, however there is a rather strong group within the working group working on the last MPLS-TP documents. The MPLS WG is also committed to complete the MPLS-TP project. This document has been greatly improved in the reviews during the working group process. Document Quality We know of a several vendors that intend to implement this specification, we actually expect every implementor that did implement RFC 7271 to implement. Several vendors have said that they will implement "as soon as it is an RFC". Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Loa Andersson Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
