The IESG has received a request from the Pseudowire And LDP-enabled Services WG (pals) to consider the following document: - 'Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) Support in Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)' <draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-pe-etree-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 2015-11-24. 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 This document specifies a generic Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS) solution which uses VLANs to indicate root or leaf traffic to support Ethernet-Tree (E-Tree) services. A VPLS Provider Edge (PE) model is illustrated as an example for the solution. In the solution, E-Tree VPLS PEs are interconnected by Pseudo Wires (PWs) which carry the VLAN indicating the E-Tree attribute. The MAC address-based Ethernet forwarding engine and the PW work in the same way as specified in RFC 4762 and RFC 4448 respectively. A signaling mechanism is described to support E-Tree capability and VLAN mapping negotiation. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-pe-etree/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-pe-etree/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1756/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2250/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1708/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/2053/
