The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'A PCE-based Architecture for Application-based Network Operations' <draft-farrkingel-pce-abno-architecture-13.txt> as Informational RFC 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 2015-01-09. 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 Services such as content distribution, distributed databases, or inter-data center connectivity place a set of new requirements on the operation of networks. They need on-demand and application-specific reservation of network connectivity, reliability, and resources (such as bandwidth) in a variety of network applications (such as point-to- point connectivity, network virtualization, or mobile back-haul) and in a range of network technologies from packet (IP/MPLS) down to optical. Additionally, existing services or capabilities like pseudowire connectivity or global concurrent optimization can benefit from a operational scheme that considers the application needs and the network status. An environment that operates to meet these types of requirement is said to have Application-Based Network Operations (ABNO). ABNO brings together many existing technologies for gathering information about the resources available in a network, for consideration of topologies and how those topologies map to underlying network resources, for requesting path computation, and for provisioning or reserving network resources. Thus, ABNO may be seen as the use of a toolbox of existing components enhanced with a few new elements. The key component within an ABNO is the Path Computation Element (PCE), which can be used for computing paths and is further extended to provide policy enforcement capabilities for ABNO. This document describes an architecture and framework for ABNO showing how these components fit together. It provides a cookbook of existing technologies to satisfy the architecture and meet the needs of the applications. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrkingel-pce-abno-architecture/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farrkingel-pce-abno-architecture/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.
