The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Framework for Ethernet Tree (E-Tree) Service over a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Network' (draft-ietf-l2vpn-etree-frwk-10.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Adrian Farrel and Alia Atlas. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-l2vpn-etree-frwk/ Technical Summary: This document describes an Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) solution framework for supporting the Metro Ethernet Forum (MEF) E-Tree service over a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network. The objective is to provide a simple and effective approach to emulate E-Tree services in addition to Ethernet LAN (E-LAN) services on an existing MPLS network. An E-Tree service is defined by one or more roots and one or more leaves. Roots can send traffic to other roots and leaves and receive traffic from other roots and leaves within the same service instance. Leaves can only receive traffic from roots and send traffic to roots in the same service instance. Working Group Summary: This document is an L2VPN Working Group document. It has gone through few iterations and addressed quite few comments/input/edits from the WG chairs that resulted in draft version 4 that passed WG LC with many people supporting it. Versions 5 and 6 addressed some indicts. Document Quality: The document has good quality. It is clear on the technical content and written with good English and layout. There are a couple of edits needed that can be taken up during the RFC edits. Personnel: Document Shepherd: Nabil Bitar (nabil.n.bitar@verizon.com) Area Director: Adrian Farrel (adrian@olddog.co.uk)
