The IESG has approved the following document: - 'S-PE Protection for MPLS and MPLS-TP Static Multi-Segment Pseudowires' (draft-ietf-pals-ms-pw-protection-04.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-ms-pw-protection/ Technical Summary In MPLS and MPLS-TP environments, statically provisioned Single- Segment Pseudowires (SS-PWs) are protected against tunnel failure via MPLS-level and MPLS-TP-level tunnel protection. With statically provisioned Multi-Segment Pseudowires (MS-PWs), each segment of the MS-PW is likewise protected from tunnel failures via MPLS-level and MPLS-TP-level tunnel protection. However, static MS-PWs are not protected end-to-end against failure of one of the switching PEs (S-PEs) along the path of the MS-PW. This document describes how to achieve this protection via redundant MS-PWs by updating the existing procedures in RFC 6870. It also contains an optional approach based on MPLS-TP Linear Protection. Working Group Summary The was nothing of note in the WG process. Document Quality A number of operators and vendors have expressed interest in this draft. Personnel Stewart Bryant is the Document Shepherd. Deborah Brungard is the Responsible Area Director.
