A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : North-Bound Distribution of Link-State and TE Information using BGP Author(s) : Hannes Gredler Adrian Farrel Jan Medved Stefano Previdi Filename : draft-gredler-idr-ls-distribution-01.txt Pages : 31 Date : 2012-03-12 In a number of environments, a component external to a network is called upon to perform computations based on the network topology and current state of the connections within the network, including traffic engineering information. This is information typically distributed by IGP routing protocols within the network This document describes a mechanism by which links state and traffic engineering information can be collected from networks and shared with external components using the BGP routing protocol. This is achieved using a new BGP Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) encoding format. The mechanism is applicable to physical and virtual links. The mechanism described is subject to policy control. Applications of this technique include Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) servers, and Path Computation Elements (PCEs). A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gredler-idr-ls-distribution-01.txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-gredler-idr-ls-distribution-01.txt _______________________________________________ I-D-Announce mailing list I-D-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/i-d-announce Internet-Draft directories: http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html or ftp://ftp.ietf.org/ietf/1shadow-sites.txt