The MPLS WG Archive

[Alex Zinin <azinin@cisco.com>]

Tony,

>>  A number of companies working in the SONET area already use or are
>>  planning to use DCC for IP control plane [I put MPLS list back ;),
>>  since this question is related to GMPLS and OTN-related work].
>> 
>>  There are two types of IP encapsulation on DCC that I know of:
>>  LAP-D and PPP/HDLC. We use the second one in our SONET products.
>> 
>>  I think writing up an IETF document describing this would make sense.

> First, this smells much like ISO thing to do so we'd need an agreement/liason
> first from their side. That is obviously only worth pursuiting if we have
> authors commiting to provide the cycles first.

Hmmm... why do you think specification of *IP* encapsulation over SONET DCC
using "PPP over HDLC-like framing" is something ISO should do?

> Second, which workgroup ? One of the MPLS offsprings such as GSMP ;-) ? What about 
> a new one, IPSO (IP over SOnet) ? I'm joking but wouldn't be surprised
> if the joke find takers ;-) ? 

Definitely not me ;)

I think some kind of individual submission should be ok. I guess
the Internet Area is the one that logically hosts it.

Thanks,

Alex.