A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. This draft is a work item of the Multiprotocol Label Switching Working Group of the IETF. Title : Allocating and Retiring Special Purpose MPLS Labels Authors : Kireeti Kompella Loa Andersson Adrian Farrel Filename : draft-ietf-mpls-special-purpose-labels-05.txt Pages : 13 Date : 2014-02-14 Abstract: Some MPLS labels have been allocated for specific purposes. A block of labels (0-15) has been set aside to this end, and are commonly called "reserved labels". They will be called "special purpose labels" in this document. As there are only 16 of these special purpose labels, caution is needed in the allocation of new special purpose labels, yet at the same time allow forward progress when one is called for. This memo defines new procedures to follow in the allocation and retirement of special purpose labels, as well as a method to extend the special purpose label space. Finally, this memo renames the IANA registry for these labels to "Special Purpose MPLS Label Values", and creates a new one called the "Extended Special Purpose MPLS Label Values" registry. This document updates a number of previous RFCs that used the term "reserved label". The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-special-purpose-labels/ There's also a htmlized version available at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-mpls-special-purpose-labels-05 A diff from the previous version is available at: http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-mpls-special-purpose-labels-05 Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org. Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/ _______________________________________________ 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