The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Framework for Scheduled Use of Resources' (draft-ietf-teas-scheduled-resources-07.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Martin Vigoureux and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-scheduled-resources/ Technical Summary Time-scheduled reservation of traffic engineering (TE) resources can be used to provide resource booking for TE Label Switched Paths so as to better guarantee services for customers and to improve the efficiency of network resource usage into the future. This document provides a framework that describes and discusses the architecture for the scheduled reservation of TE resources. This document does not describe specific protocols or protocol extensions needed to realize this service. Working Group Summary The progress of the document through the WG has been smooth. There were originally two individual I-Ds, that discussed different approaches to managing scheduled resource usage in TE networks. The authors of the two I-Ds merged their ideas and produced a single document. This merged document eventually got adopted by the WG. Document Quality This document has been discussed and reviewed thoroughly by the WG. The base PCE architecture and the PCEP protocol have been implemented. The document that uses this architecture and proposes the set of PCEP extensions to “enable LSP scheduling for path computation and LSP setup/deletion based on the actual network resource usage duration of a traffic service” is actively being worked on in the PCE WG. While there have been no public statements on implementation of this new architecture, the authors are from multiple vendors, and implementation is expected. Personnel Who is the Document Shepherd for this document? Vishnu Pavan Beeram Who is the Responsible Area Director? Deborah Brungard
