As someone who observed the discussion on this topic in Broadband Forum (BBF), I support IETF publication. The BBF work area spent significant time discussing and assessing multiple options to solve the problem. That led to selection of this solution. After selection, they spent time refining this solution before submitting to IETF. This draft documents a strong-consensus and well-vetted solution from the ISPs, equipment vendors, and others participating in architecting 5G Wireless-Wireline convergence. Barbara -----Original Message----- From: iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx <iesg-secretary@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Tuesday, 30 June 2020 12:18 AM To: IETF-Announce <ietf-announce@xxxxxxxx> Cc: ek.ietf@xxxxxxxxx; draft-allan-5g-fmc-encapsulation@xxxxxxxx Subject: Last Call: <draft-allan-5g-fmc-encapsulation-04.txt> (5G Wireless Wireline Convergence User Plane Encapsulation (5WE)) to Informational RFC The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - '5G Wireless Wireline Convergence User Plane Encapsulation (5WE)' <draft-allan-5g-fmc-encapsulation-04.txt> as Informational RFC 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 last-call@xxxxxxxx mailing lists by 2020-07-27. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@xxxxxxxx instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract As part of providing wireline access to the 5G Core (5GC), deployed wireline networks carry user data between 5G residential gateways and the 5G Access Gateway Function (AGF). The encapsulation used needs to meet a variety of requirements including being able to multiplex the traffic of multiple PDU sessions within a VLAN delineated access circuit, to permit legacy equipment in the data path to snoop certain packet fields, to carry 5G QoS information associated with the data, and to be efficiently encoded. This memo specifies an encapsulation that meets these requirements. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-allan-5g-fmc-encapsulation/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/3663/ -- last-call mailing list last-call@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/last-call
