The IESG has approved the following document: - 'RSVP-TE Extensions for Associated Bidirectional LSPs' (draft-ietf-teas-mpls-tp-rsvpte-ext-associated-lsp-07.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alia Atlas and Adrian Farrel. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-mpls-tp-rsvpte-ext-associated-lsp/ Technical Summary This document describes Resource reSerVation Protocol (RSVP) extensions to bind two point-to-point unidirectional Label Switched Paths (LSPs) into an associated bidirectional LSP. The association is achieved by defining new Association Types for use in ASSOCIATION and in Extended ASSOCIATION Objects. One of these types enables independent provisioning of the associated bidirectional LSPs on both sides, while the other enables single sided provisioning. The REVERSE_LSP Object is also defined to enable a single endpoint to trigger creation of the reverse LSP and to specify parameters of the reverse LSP in the single sided provisioning case. Working Group Summary The document moved from the CCAMP to TEAS WGs as part of the routing WG changes. This document has been fairly noncontroversial. Document Quality The base GMPLS protocol has been implemented. The extensions defined in this document are compatible with earlier implementations. While there have been no public statements on implementation, the authors are from multiple vendors and an operator, and implementation Is expected. The Acknowledgement section acknowledges a prototype implementation. Personnel Deborah Brungard is the Document Shepherd Adrian Farrel is the Responsible Area Director
