The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Definition of Time-to-Live TLV for LSP-Ping Mechanisms' (draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-ping-ttl-tlv-10.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Multiprotocol Label Switching 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-mpls-lsp-ping-ttl-tlv/ Technical Summary LSP-Ping is a widely deployed Operation, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) mechanism in MPLS networks. However, as it is currently defined there is no way to verify the connectivity of one or more segments of an MS-PW. This document specifies a method by which any T-PE or S-PE can verify the connectivity to any other T-PE or S-PE. This document defines a new LSP Ping TLV to support this type of connectivity verification. Working Group Summary The WG process was pretty straight-forward. The only thing even remotely close to needing to be mentioned is that the IPR poll took unreasonably long (started March 15 and ended September 18), for a poll that resulted in that "We are not aware of any IPR that relates to this document". Document Quality The Working Group chairs asked for implementation status on the working group mailing list. They received feedback on this poll and know of implementations of the draft. There have also been statements saying that vendors intend to implement this specification . The document has been reviewed through the normal WG process. No MIB Doctor, Media Type or other expert review been performed or requested. Personnel Loa Andersson is the document Shepherd. Adrian Farrel is the responsible AD.
