The IESG has received a request from the Multiprotocol Label Switching WG (mpls) to consider the following document: - 'Encapsulating MPLS in UDP' <draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-09.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 2015-01-12. 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 This document specifies an IP-based encapsulation for MPLS, called MPLS-in-UDP (User Datagram Protocol) for situations where UDP encapsulation is preferred to direct use of MPLS, e.g., to enable UDP-based ECMP (Equal Cost Multi-Pathing) or link aggregation. MPLS- in-UDP is primarily applicable to service provider networks, and additional restrictions apply to MPLS-in-UDP usage for traffic that is not congestion controlled and to UDP zero checksum usage with IPv6. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1941/ http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2198/
