The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Signaling Extensions for Wavelength Switched Optical Networks' (draft-ietf-ccamp-wson-signaling-12.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Common Control and Measurement Plane Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alia Atlas, Deborah Brungard, and Alvaro Retana. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ccamp-wson-signaling/ Technical Summary This memo provides extensions to Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) signaling for control of Wavelength Switched Optical Networks (WSON). Such extensions are applicable in WSONs under a number of conditions including: (a) when optional processing, such as regeneration, must be configured to occur at specific nodes along a path, (b) where equipment must be configured to accept an optical signal with specific attributes, or (c) where equipment must be configured to output an optical signal with specific attributes. This document provides mechanisms to support distributed wavelength assignment with choice in distributed wavelength assignment algorithms. Working Group Summary This topic been discussed in the WG for a very long time, perhaps 6 years. Support for the work has been tepid, but there are multiple sets of contributors who would like to see the work result in proposed standards. Document Quality The base GMPLS protocol has been implemented. The extensions defined in this document are compatible with earlier implementations. Multiple implementors have stated their intent to implement, or have stated that they have already implemented, the mechanisms defined in this document. Personnel Lou Berger is the Document Shepherd Deborah Brungard is the Responsible Area Director RFC Editor Note Please change Section 5 Security Considerations, second sentence: OLD As such, this document introduces no new security considerations to the existing GMPLS signaling protocols. NEW The specific additional information (optical resource and wavelength selection properties) is not viewed as substantively changing or adding to the security considerations of the existing GMPLS signaling protocol mechanisms. END OF CHANGE
