Summary of "draft-cheng-mpls-rsvp-multicast-er-00.txt"

["Cheng, Dean" <DCheng@PolarisNetworks.com>]

The summary of this I-D is as follows:

      Title - "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for Multicast LSP Tunnels" 
   
   Currently the RSVP-TE defines explicit route object and 
   related procedure for traffic engineering based MPLS tunnels but 
   for unicast situations only. This document extends the RSVP-TE's 
   explicit route capability to multicast applications. The mechanism
   proposed in this document is also intended for multicast 
   applications in GMPLS networks.

      Two new objects are proposed in this I-D:

         1) Tree Explicit Route Object 

                 This is included in the PATH/RESV messages to replace the
Explicit Route objet
                 if the RSVP-TE tunnel is point-to-multipoint.

         2) Tree Record Route Object 

                 This is included in the PATH/RESV messages to replace the
Record Route objet
                 if the RSVP-TE tunnel is point-to-multipoint.

Dean