The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Using A Generic Associated Channel Label as a Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification Channel Indicator' (draft-ietf-pals-vccv-for-gal-06.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Pseudowire And LDP-enabled Services Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Alia Atlas and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pals-vccv-for-gal/ Technical Summary This document specifies a new Virtual Circuit Connectivity Verification (VCCV) (RFC5085) control channel type for use with pseudowires (PW) carried over an MPLS network. This new channel type uses the Generic Associated Channel Label (GAL) (RFC5586) to distinguish VCCV packets from packets carrying user data. Although the use of the GAL on PWs in MPLS-TP is defined in RFC6423, this draft specifies the necessary extensions to VCCV to support the GAL on PWs setup and maintained using targeted LDP (tLDP). Working Group Summary Nothing unusual in the progress of the document. Document Quality There are multiple implementations of the GAL for MPLS-TP LSPs and PWs. Many implementations of the LDP extensions for negotiating the use of the existing VCCV control channel on a targeted LDP signalled PW are also known to exist. The document has also been widely reviewed by the original authors of and contributors to VCCV (RFC5085). Personnel The Document Shepherd is Matthew Bocci (matthew.bocci@alcatel-lucent.com) The Responsible Area Director is Deborah Brungard (db3546@att.com)
