The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Multicast Control Extensions for ANCP' (draft-ietf-ancp-mc-extensions-16.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Access Node Control Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ted Lemon and Brian Haberman. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ancp-mc-extensions/ Technical Summary: This document specifies the extensions to the Access Node Control Protocol required for support of the multicast use cases defined in the Access Node Control Protocol framework document and one additional use case described in this document. These use cases are organized into the following ANCP capabilities: o NAS-initiated multicast replication; o conditional access with white and black lists; o conditional access with grey lists; o bandwidth delegation; o committed bandwidth reporting. These capabilities may be combined according to the rules given in this specification. Working Group Summary: The document specifies a solution to a set of multicast use cases for ANCP. These use cases are largely specified in RFC5851. That framework draft also contains use cases for the base ANCP protocol, which is specified in RFC6320. The multicast solution was split from the other use case solutions that were eventually published in RFC6320 because, at the time, it was felt that the multicast solution needed further development and review. Document Quality: There are no concerns with document quality. It is believed that there is at least one implementation of the protocol extensions described in the draft, and it has had significant review and refinement over a number of years. There are no formal review criteria. Personnel: Matthew Bocci is the document shepherd. Ted Lemon is the responsible Area Director.
