The IESG has received a request from the Multiprotocol Label Switching WG (mpls) to consider the following document: - 'Allocating and Retiring Special Purpose MPLS Labels' <draft-ietf-mpls-special-purpose-labels-05.txt> as Proposed Standard 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 2014-03-03. 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 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 file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-special-purpose-labels/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-special-purpose-labels/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
