CCAMP draft-mannie-ccamp-gmpls-concatenation-conversion-00.txt

["Mannie, Eric" <Eric.Mannie@ebone.com>]

Dear All,

Please find hereafter a summary of a new internet-draft. I sent it for
publication today and it should be available next week on the IETF Web site.

NAME OF I-D

http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mannie-ccamp-gmpls-concatenation-c
onversion-00.txt

SUMMARY

   This document is a companion to the GMPLS extensions for SONET and 
   SDH control. It defines a way to control and 
   negotiate the use of converters between contiguous and virtual 
   concatenation in SONET and SDH networks. A new flag in the 
   Requested Contiguous Concatenation (RCC) field is proposed for 
   that purpose.

RELATED DOCUMENTS

http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-sonet-sdh-00.t
xt
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-signaling
-04.txt
http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-many-gmpls-architecture-00.txt

WHERE DOES IT FIT IN THE PICTURE OF THE SUB-IP WORK

In the CCAMP WG, with the GMPLS signaling.

WHY IS IT TARGETED AT THIS WG

Because it is a proposed signaling extension to the GMPLS signaling used to
control SDH and SONET. It addresses the charter in the same way as the GMPLS
signaling.

JUSTIFICATION

This draft defines a straightforward signaling mechanism that can be used in
the GMPLS signaling to negotiate hop-by-hop the use of ITU-T/ANSI converters
between SDH contiguous concatenation and virtual concatenation for an
end-to-end connection. It doesn't define any new concatenation type (it uses
a concatenation flag just for signaling reasons). The goal is to allow to
maximize the use of the standard virtual concatenation thanks to the GMPLS
signaling allowing to control easily the use of such converters.

Kind regards,

Eric

Eric Mannie
Technology & Standards Strategy Manager
Network Engineering Strategy
EBONE

Terhulpsesteenweg 6A
1560 Hoeilaart - Belgium

Tel:    +32 2 658 56 52
Mobile: +32 496 58 56 52
Fax:    +32 2 658 51 18
E-mail: eric.mannie@ebone.com