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Just in case anyone missed the announcement regarding the future of CR-LDP within the IETF. Chris >>Date: Mon, 09 Sep 2002 16:06:35 +0200 >>From: Loa Andersson <loa.andersson@utfors.se> >>User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4.1) >>Gecko/20020508 Netscape6/6.2.3 >>X-Accept-Language: en-us >>To: MPLS wg <mpls@UU.NET> >>CC: Scott Bradner <sob@harvard.edu>, Bert Wijnen <bwijnen@lucent.com>, >> George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com> >>Subject: Consensus on the MPLS signaling protocols >>Sender: owner-mpls@UU.NET >> >>All, >> >>we have found that we have reached a workable consensus in the >>discussion on MPLS signaling protocol for traffic engineering >>applications. >> >>The consensus is based on the earlier attempted consensus mails >>sent by the Working Group chairs to the MPLS mailing list, and >>discussion on the list. >> >>Consensus has been reached on: >> >>- that the MPLS WG needs to focus its efforts on RSVP-TE as protocol >> for traffic engineering signaling. >> >>- that the Working Group effort on CR-LDP should be discontinued. >> >>- that the WG charter should be updated to reflect this. >> >>- that CR-LDP (RFC 3212) will remain a proposed standard. >> >>- that RFCs 3213 and 3214, that is closely related to CR-LDP will remain >> proposed standard. >> >>- that existing Working Group drafts related to or updating/changing >> CR-LDP will be progressed through the standards process to >> proposed standard or informational RFCs as appropriate. >> >>- that "the existing cr-ldp working group documents" are: >> draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-query-nn.txt >> draft-ietf-mpls-te-feed-nn.txt >> draft-ietf-mpls-crldp-unnum-nn.txt >> draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-ft-nn.txt >> draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-cr-ldp-nn.txt >> draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-sonet-sdh-nn.txt >> draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-sonet-sdh-extensions-nn.txt >> >>- that the IETF will take on no new Working Group documents >> related to CR-LDP. >> >>- that the IETF will entertain no efforts to promote CR-LDP beyond >> proposed standard. >> >>- that individual contributions to CR-LDP area are not prohibited, but >> discouraged. >> >>- that a message will be sent to the relevant standards organizations >> notifying them of this change of focus on MPLS signaling protocols. >> >> >>A more detailed documentation of the consensus, the process through which >>it was reached are found in >> >>http://62.119.0.68/~loa/tally.htm >> >>and >> >>http://62.119.0.68/~loa/draft-andersson-mpls-sig-decision-00.txt >> >>The later is a Internet Draft that will be sent to the IESG to be >>published as an Informational RFC as confirmation of the Working >>Group consensus. >> >>Comments on this Internet Draft are welcome. >> >>Loa and George >> >>-- >> Loa Andersson >> Chief Architect, >> Utfors Research, Architecture and Future Lab (URAX) >> Utfors AB >> Råsundavägen 12 >> Box 525, 169 29 Solna >> Office +46 8 5270 2000 >> Office direct +46 8 5270 5038 >> Mobile +46 70 848 5038 >> Email loa.andersson@utfors.se >> WWW www.utfors.se > ------- The MPLS-OPS Mailing List Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://www.mplsrc.com/mplsops.shtml Archive: http://www.mplsrc.com/mpls-ops_archive.shtml |
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