The IESG has approved the following document: - 'LDP Capabilities ' <draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-capabilities-04.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Multiprotocol Label Switching Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ross Callon and Adrian Farrel. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-capabilities-04.txt Technical Summary A number of enhancements to the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) have been proposed. Some have been implemented, and some are advancing toward standardization. It is likely that additional enhancements will be proposed in the future. At present, LDP has no mechanism for advertising such enhancements at LDP session initialization time. There is also no mechanism to enable and disable enhancements after the session is established. This document defines a mechanism for advertising LDP enhancements at session initialization time, as well as a mechanism to enable and disable enhancements after LDP session establishment. Working Group Summary This document represents the WG consensus as a whole: the WG as a whole understands and agrees with it. The document has been through wg last call with good and constructive comments, it has also been reviewed by subject-matter experts who are WG members. No controvery reported (see PROTO writeup by Loa Andersson in the tracker) Document Quality There is at least one known implementation. The document has been well reviewed in the WG and updated based on Gen-Art comments. Personnel Loa Andersson is the Document Shepherd for this document. Ross Callon is the Responsible Area Director. RFC Editor Note The address and corporate affiliation for Bob Thomas should be double checked. He can be contacted at: bobt727@yahoo.com. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
