The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Explicit Path Routing for Dynamic Multi-Segment Pseudowires' (draft-ietf-pwe3-mspw-er-06.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Pseudowire Emulation Edge to Edge 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-pwe3-mspw-er/ Technical Summary Dynamic Multi-Segment Pseudowire (MS-PW) setup through an explicit path may be required to provide a simple solution for 1:1 protection with diverse primary and backup MS-PWs for a service, or to enable controlled signaling (strict or loose) for special MS-PWs. This document specifies the extensions and procedures required to enable dynamic MS-PWs to be established along explicit paths. Relevant content can frequently be found in the abstract and/or introduction of the document. If not, this may be an indication that there are deficiencies in the abstract or introduction. Working Group Summary The document has been held up in the working group for a while because it is dependent on draft-ietf-pwe3-dynamic-ms-pw, which is currently in the RFC Editor's queue (draft-ietf-pwe3-mspw-er was split out from that draft in 2011). We kept this draft in the WG until draft-ietf-pwe3-dynamic-ms-pw reached the RFC Editor in case any changes were made during WG LC, IETF LC, or IESG deliberation that might result in changes to this draft. As it turned out, no such changes were needed. Document Quality: There is at least one publicly known, shipping implementation of this draft (ALU). The document text has been stable for quite some time, other than a few recent changes made as a result of the shepherd's review. Personnel: Andrew Malis (agmalis@gmail.com) is the Document Shepherd Adrian Farrel (Adrian@olddog.co.uk) is the Responsible Area Director.
