RFC 5317 Joint Working Team (JWT) Report on MPLS Architectural Considerations for a Transport Profil.docVIP

RFC 5317 Joint Working Team (JWT) Report on MPLS Architectural Considerations for a Transport Profil Network Working Group S. Bryant, Ed. Request for Comments: 5317 Cisco Systems Category: Informational L. Andersson, Ed. Acreo AB February 2009 Joint Working Team (JWT) Report on MPLS Architectural Considerations for a Transport Profile Status of This Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Copyright Notice Copyright (c) 2009 IETF Trust and the persons identified as the document authors. All rights reserved. This document is subject to BCP 78 and the IETF Trusts Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents (/ license-info) in effect on the date of publication of this document. Please review these documents carefully, as they describe your rights and restrictions with respect to this document. Abstract This RFC archives the report of the IETF - ITU-T Joint Working Team (JWT) on the application of MPLS to transport networks. The JWT recommended of Option 1: The IETF and the ITU-T jointly agree to work together and bring transport requirements into the IETF and extend IETF MPLS forwarding, OAM (Operations, Administration, and Management), survivability, network management and control plane protocols to meet those requirements through the IETF Standards Process. This RFC is available in ASCII (which contains a summary of the slides) and in PDF (which contains the summary and a copy of the slides). Bryant Andersson Informational [Page 1]  RFC 5317 JWT MPLS-TP Report