The IESG has approved the following document: - 'MAC Address Withdrawal over Static Pseudowire' (draft-ietf-pals-mpls-tp-mac-wd-03.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-mpls-tp-mac-wd/ Technical Summary This document specifies a mechanism to signal MAC address withdrawal notification using PW Associated Channel (ACH). Such notification is useful when statically provisioned PWs are deployed in VPLS/H-VPLS environment. Working Group Summary This draft was previously in the L2VPN WG before being moved to the PALS WG. It was a typical draft, with most of the technical comments being made as it progressed through several revisions as an individual draft. As a result, it was in pretty good shape when it reached PALS WG LC. Both PALS chairs reviewed the draft in detail and provided comments, which were addressed by the authors prior to IESG submission. Document Quality Are there existing implementations of the protocol? Have a significant number of vendors indicated their plan to implement the specification? Are there any reviewers that merit special mention as having done a thorough review, e.g., one that resulted in important changes or a conclusion that the document had no substantive issues? If there was a MIB Doctor, Media Type or other expert review, what was its course (briefly)? In the case of a Media Type review, on what date was the request posted? As noted above, both PALS chairs reviewed the draft in detail and provided comments, which have been addressed. The chairs are aware of at least one implementation in active use, and there may be others as well. Personnel Andy Malis, Deborah Brungard.
