The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Multisegment Pseudowires in Passive Optical Networks' <draft-li-pwe3-ms-pw-pon-03.txt> as an Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2011-06-28. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract This document describes the application of MPLS multi-segment pseudowires (MS-PWs) in a dual-technology environment comprising a Passive Optical Network (PON) and an MPLS Packet Switched Network (PSN). PON technology may be used in mobile backhaul networks to support the end segments closest to the aggregation devices. In these cases, there may be a very large number of PW Terminating Provider Edge nodes (T-PEs). The MPLS control plane could be used to provision these end segments, but support for the necessary protocols would complicate the management of the T-PEs and would significantly increase their expense. Alternatively, static, or management plane, configuration could be used to configure the end segments, but the very large number of such segments in a PON places a very heavy burden on the network manager. This document describes how to set up the end segment of an end-to- end MPLS PW over a Gigabit-capable Passive Optical Network (GPON) using the GPON management protocol, Optical Network Termination Management and Control Interface (OMCI). This simplifies and speeds up PW provisioning. This document also shows how a MS-PW may be constructed from an end segment supported over a PON, and stitched to one or more segments supported over an MPLS PSN. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-pwe3-ms-pw-pon/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-li-pwe3-ms-pw-pon/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1438/ _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
