The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Signaling Root-Initiated Point-to-Multipoint Pseudowire using LDP' (draft-ietf-pals-p2mp-pw-04.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-p2mp-pw/ Technical Summary This document specifies a mechanism to signal Point-to-Multipoint (P2MP) Pseudowires (PW) tree using LDP. Such a mechanism is suitable for any Layer 2 VPN service requiring P2MP connectivity over an IP or MPLS enabled PSN. A P2MP PW established via the proposed mechanism is root initiated. This document updates RFC7385 by re-assigning reserved value 0xFF to be the wildcard transport tunnel type. Working Group Summary The Working Group and its predecessor (PWE3) took a long time to finish the document. There was not much comment on it in WGLC. It is none-the-less a useful document which should be published as part of completing the IETF work on "classical" pseudowires. Document Quality This is a well written document that clearly explains how to signal Root-Initiated Point-to-Multipoint Pseudowire using LDP. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Stewart Bryant Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
