Subject: New CCAMP RFC

From: "Adrian Farrel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 08:31:24 +0100

Thanks to everyone involved.
Not quite sure how this RFC jumped the queue, but good to have it
published. 

Adrian
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Subject: RFC 4139 on Requirements for Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
SignalingUsage and Extensions for Automatically Switched OpticalNetwork
(ASON) 

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> A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. 
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>         RFC 4139 
>
>         Title:      Requirements for Generalized MPLS (GMPLS)
>                     Signaling Usage and Extensions for Automatically
>                     Switched Optical Network (ASON)
>         Author(s):  D. Papadimitriou, J. Drake, J. Ash, A. Farrel,
>                     L. Ong
>         Status:     Informational
>         Date:       July 2005
>         Mailbox:    [email-masked],
>                     [email-masked], [email-masked],
>                     [email-masked], [email-masked]
>         Pages:      16
>         Characters: 36660
>         Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:    None 
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>         I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-ason-reqts-07.txt 
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>         URL:        ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc4139.txt 
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> The Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) suite of
> protocols has been defined to control different switching
> technologies and different applications.  These include support
> for requesting Time Division Multiplexing (TDM) connections, including
> Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
> (SDH) and Optical Transport Networks (OTNs). 
>
> This document concentrates on the signaling aspects of the GMPLS
> suite of protocols.  It identifies the features to be covered by the
> GMPLS signaling protocol to support the capabilities of an
> Automatically Switched Optical Network (ASON).  This document provides
> a problem statement and additional requirements for the GMPLS
> signaling protocol to support the ASON functionality. 
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> This document is a product of the Common Control and Measurement Plane
> Working Group of the IETF. 
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