The IESG has received a request from the Routing Area Working Group WG (rtgwg) to consider the following document: - 'Requirements for Composite Links in MPLS Networks' <draft-ietf-rtgwg-cl-requirement-10.txt> as 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 2013-06-19. 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 There is often a need to provide large aggregates of bandwidth that are best provided using parallel links between routers or MPLS LSR. In core networks there is often no alternative since the aggregate capacities of core networks today far exceed the capacity of a single physical link or single packet processing element. The presence of parallel links, with each link potentially comprised of multiple layers has resulted in additional requirements. Certain services may benefit from being restricted to a subset of the component links or a specific component link, where component link characteristics, such as latency, differ. Certain services require that an LSP be treated as atomic and avoid reordering. Other services will continue to require only that reordering not occur within a microflow as is current practice. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtgwg-cl-requirement/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-rtgwg-cl-requirement/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
