The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) 'Typed Wildcard' Forward Equivalence Class (FEC) ' <draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-typed-wildcard-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Multiprotocol Label Switching Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adrian Farrel and Ross Callon. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-typed-wildcard-07.txt Technical Summary The LDP specification [RFC5036] for the Wildcard FEC element has several deficiencies. This document corrects those deficiencies. In addition, it specifies the Typed Wildcard FEC for the Prefix FEC Element Type defined in RFC5036. The RFC5036 specification of the Wildcard FEC Element has the following deficiencies which limit its utility: 1) The Wildcard FEC Element is untyped. There are situations where it would be useful to be able to refer to all FECs of a given type. 2) Use of the Wildcard FEC Element is limited to Label Withdraw and Label Release messages only. There are situations where it would be useful in Label Request messages. This document: - Addresses the above deficiencies by defining a Typed Wildcard FEC Element and procedures for its use. - Specifies use of the LDP capability mechanism [RFC5561] at session establishment time for informing a peer that an LDP speaker is capable of handling the Typed Wildcast FEC. - Specifies the Typed Wildcard FEC Element for the Prefix FEC Element specified by RFC5036. Note that this document does not change procedures specified for the LDP Wildcard FEC Element by RFC5036. Working Group Summary Nothing to report. Document Quality There is at least one implementation that we know of, i.e. Cisco. Personnel Loa Andersson (loa@pi.nu) Document Shepherd. Adrian Farrel (adrian.farrel@huawei.com) is the Responsible AD. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
