The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Multipoint LDP in-band signaling for Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint- to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths' (draft-ietf-mpls-mldp-in-band-signaling-08.txt) as 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-mldp-in-band-signaling/ Technical Summary Sometimes an IP multicast tree, constructed by Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM), needs to pass through an MPLS domain in which Multipoint LDP (mLDP) Point-to-Multipoint and/or Multipoint-to- Multipoint Labels Switched Paths (LSPs) can be created. The part of the IP multicast tree that traverses the MPLS domain can be instantiated as a multipoint LSP. When a PIM Join message is received at the border of the MPLS domain, information from that message is encoded into mLDP messages. When the mLDP messages reach the border of the next IP domain, the encoded information is used to generate PIM messages that can be sent through the IP domain. The result is an IP multicast tree consisting of a set of IP multicast sub-trees that are spliced together with a multipoint LSP. This document describes procedures how IP multicast trees are spliced together with multipoint LSPs. Working Group Summary The MPLS working group has a few non-MPLS-TP documents that fell into the cracks when we were allocating almost all of our time to wrapping up the MPLS-TP documents. This document is one of them. Version -04 of the document was working group last called in October 2011, it was updated based on on comments during working group last call. After that the shepherd fumbled and left the draft without attention for almost 6 months. When we finally got around to paying attention to the document again the document shepherd re-reviewed it and found there was no reason to re-issue a working group last call. The draft is stable. This document has a strong support in the working group and has been well reviewed. We had good discussions both on the mailing list and at the f2f meetings. Document Quality We know of existing implementations and intentions to implement this specification. AD review resulted in a new revision clarifying a number of small points. Personnel Loa Andersson (loa@pi.nu) is the document shepherd. Adrian Farrel (adrian@olddog.co.uk) is the responsible AD.
