The IESG has approved the following document: - 'MPLS LSP PW status refresh reduction for Static Pseudowires' (draft-ietf-pals-status-reduction-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-status-reduction/ Technical Summary This document describes a method for generating an aggregated pseudowire status message on Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) network Label Switched Path (LSP). The method for transmitting the pseudowire (PW) status information is not new, however this protocol extension allows a Service Provider (SP) to reliably monitor the individual PW status while not overwhelming the network with multiple periodic status messages. This is achieved by sending a single cumulative summary status verification message for all the PWs grouped in the same LSP. Working Group Summary The working groups has been working on this for about five years. It has discussed it a number of times and supports publication. Document Quality This is a well written document. There has been industry interest but we are not sure how widely it has been implemented. It is not uncommon in this area for RFC to proceed before implementation. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Stewart Bryant Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
