The IESG has received a request from the Inter-Domain Routing WG (idr) to consider the following document: - 'North-Bound Distribution of Link-State and TE Information using BGP' <draft-ietf-idr-ls-distribution-10.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 2015-04-08. 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 a number of environments, a component external to a network is called upon to perform computations based on the network topology and current state of the connections within the network, including traffic engineering information. This is information typically distributed by IGP routing protocols within the network. This document describes a mechanism by which links state and traffic engineering information can be collected from networks and shared with external components using the BGP routing protocol. This is achieved using a new BGP Network Layer Reachability Information (NLRI) encoding format. The mechanism is applicable to physical and virtual IGP links. The mechanism described is subject to policy control. Applications of this technique include Application Layer Traffic Optimization (ALTO) servers, and Path Computation Elements (PCEs). The file can be obtained via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-ls-distribution/ IESG discussion can be tracked via http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-idr-ls-distribution/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1864/
