The IESG has received a request from the Open Shortest Path First IGP WG (ospf) to consider the following document: - 'OSPF Traffic Engineering (TE) Metric Extensions' <draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions-08.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 2014-12-24. 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 In certain networks, such as, but not limited to, financial information networks (e.g., stock market data providers), network performance criteria (e.g., latency) are becoming as critical to data path selection as other metrics. This document describes extensions to RFC 3630 'Traffic Engineering (TE) Extensions to OSPF Version 2' such that network performance information can be distributed and collected in a scalable fashion. The information distributed using OSPF TE Metric Extensions can then be used to make path selection decisions based on network performance. Note that this document only covers the mechanisms with which network performance information is distributed. The mechanisms for measuring network performance or acting on that information, once distributed, are outside the scope of this document. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ospf-te-metric-extensions/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2442/ http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2199/
