The IESG has approved the following document: - 'MPLS-TP Linear Protection' (draft-ietf-mpls-tp-linear-protection-09.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 Stewart Bryant. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-tp-linear-protection/ Technical Summary The Transport Profile for Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS-TP) is being specified jointly by IETF and ITU-T. This document addresses the functionality described in the MPLS-TP Survivability Framework document and defines a protocol that may be used to fulfill the function of the Protection State Coordination for linear protection. Linear protection provides rapid and simple protection switching. In a mesh network, linear protection provides a very suitable protection mechanism because it can operate between any pair of points within the network. It can protect against a defect in an intermediate node, a span, a transport path segment, or an end-to-end transport path. Working Group Summary This document has been carefully reviewed by the MPLS WG as well as by ITU-T SG15. A summary of the resolution of the many comments received has been posted to the MPLS WG email list. Document Quality Multiple implementations are in progress. Personnel Ross Callon (rcallon@juniper.net) is the Document Shepherd. Adrian Farrel (adrian@olddog.co.uk) is the Responsible AD _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce
