Subject: [mpls] Results from the ITU-T SG15 Plenary Meeting

From: Scott Mansfield <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2011 12:59:31 -0500

MPLS Working Group,

A short update from the ITU-T SG15 Plenary Meeting held 5-16 December 2011 in Geneva.

There were 5 documents of interest to the MPLS working group that were considered during the December 2011 ITU-T SG15 plenary.  The documents discussed were:
 
G.8110.1:  Architecture of MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) layer network
G.8113.1:  Operations, Administration and Maintenance mechanism for MPLS-TP in Packet Transport Network (PTN)
G.8113.2:  Operations, administration and maintenance mechanisms for MPLS-TP networks using the tools defined for MPLS
G.8121:    Characteristics of MPLS-TP Network Equipment Functional Blocks
G.8151:    Management aspects of the MPLS-TP network element

The results from the meeting:

G.8113.1 and G.8113.2 were not approved.  G.8113.1 will be considered for approval again at the WTSA (World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly) meeting to be held in November 2012.  G.8113.2 was placed in TAP (traditional approval process) but there was no consensus that the document was mature enough to be considered for approval.  Therefore, G.8113.2 is still able to be modified through contribution and will be discussed at an Interim meeting in June and at the next SG15 Plenary in September 2012.

G.8110.1 was approved, but there were a number of Sector Members that have placed reservations on the document.  The document will be published, and the text of the reservations will appear near the front of the document.

G.8121 and G.8151 were "consented" which means they will enter a 4 week last call period, and the documents will be worked on during the interim meeting in June and the September 2012 plenary.

Next step:
The ITU is going to send a liaison which includes the text of the G.8113.1 that was up for approval at the Dec 2011 plenary meeting.

Regards,
-scott.
IETF-ITU Liaison manager for MPLS