The IESG has received a request from the Multiprotocol Label Switching WG (mpls) to consider the following document: - 'Inter-Area P2MP Segmented LSPs' <draft-ietf-mpls-seamless-mcast-15.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 2015-02-02. 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 describes procedures for building inter-area point-to- multipoint (P2MP) segmented service LSPs by partitioning such LSPs into intra-area segments and using BGP as the inter-area routing and label distribution protocol. Within each IGP area the intra-area segments are either carried over intra-area P2MP LSPs, using P2MP LSP hierarchy, or instantiated using ingress replication. The intra-area P2MP LSPs may be signaled using P2MP RSVP-TE or P2MP mLDP. If ingress replication is used within an IGP area, then (multipoint-to-point) LDP LSPs or (point-to-point) RSVP-TE LSPs may be used in the IGP area. The applications/services that use such inter-area service LSPs may be BGP Multicast VPN, VPLS multicast, or global table multicast over MPLS. The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-seamless-mcast/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-seamless-mcast/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2047/
