The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Extensions to VPLS PE model for Provider Backbone Bridging' (draft-ietf-l2vpn-pbb-vpls-pe-model-07.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Stewart Bryant and Adrian Farrel. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-l2vpn-pbb-vpls-pe-model/ Technical Summary The draft documents extensions to the VPLS PE model required to incorporate desirable IEEE PBB (Provider Backbone Bridges) components, such as enhanced scalability in terms of number of customer MAC addresses and number of service instances, whilst maintaining the Service Provider alignment of VPLS - which has been deployed on a large scale in many Service Provider networks. Working Group Summary This document is an L2VPN Working Group document, and has been well reviewed in the working group through multiple iterations of the draft. It has been essentially stable since WG adoption in May 2009. Document Quality The document is concise (13 pages of which about 6 are substantive - the rest being introduction, terminology, references and acknowledgements) and is stable. There are multiple interoperable implementations by multiple vendors. Personnel Document Shepherd: Giles Heron (giheron@cisco.com) Area Director: Stewart Bryant (stbryant@cisco.com)
