The IESG has received a request from the Multiprotocol Label Switching WG (mpls) to consider the following document: - 'Use of Multipath with MPLS and MPLS-TP' <draft-ietf-mpls-multipath-use-03.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 2014-01-17. 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 Many MPLS implementations have supported multipath techniques and many MPLS deployments have used multipath techniques, particularly in very high bandwidth applications, such as provider IP/MPLS core networks. MPLS-TP has strongly discouraged the use of multipath techniques. Some degradation of MPLS-TP OAM performance cannot be avoided when operating over many types of multipath implementations. Using MPLS Entropy label, MPLS Label Switched Paths (LSPs) can be carried over multipath links while also providing a fully MPLS-TP compliant server layer for MPLS-TP LSPs. This document describes the means of supporting MPLS as a server layer for MPLS-TP. The use of MPLS-TP LSPs as a server layer for MPLS LSPs is also discussed. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-multipath-use/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-multipath-use/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1593/
