The IESG has approved the following document: - 'OSPF-Traffic Engineering Link Availability Extension for Links with Variable Discrete Bandwidth' (draft-ietf-ccamp-ospf-availability-extension-13.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-ospf-availability-extension/ Technical Summary A network may contain links with variable discrete bandwidth, e.g., copper, radio, etc. The bandwidth of such links may change discretely in reaction to changing external environment. This document defines a new type of the Generalized Switching Capability-specific information (SCSI) TLV to extend the Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing protocol. The extension can be used for route computation in a network that contains links with variable discrete bandwidth. Working Group Summary This document was reviewed by both CCAMP and TEAS WGs and received comments at IETF meetings and on the mailing list. Particularly, it was discussed how to refine the document to make it generic to apply to multiple technologies. This document had a joint WG last call between CCAMP and TEAS WGs. As a result of the Gen-ART review at Last Call, CCAMP and TEAS agreed to do a new registry, Generalized Switching Capability TLV and have this as a type entry. As a result, this document has been on hold until that document and registry was completed. There were no problems with consensus for this document. Document Quality The document is concise and was well reviewed. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Fatai Zhang Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
