ipo draft-damle-optical-channel-concatenation-00.txt

["Young Lee" <ylee@irislabs.com>]

NAME of I-D:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-damle-optical-channel-concaten
ation-00.txt

SUMMARY:

This contribution identifies the need and requirements for 
concatenating optical channels to create multiple high bandwidth 
payload channels. To maximize the benefits of standardization, the 
concatenation methodolgy should be independant of framing protocols 
e.g., SONET, GFP, OCh etc.) as well as payload types (e.g., Packet,  
Cell, Byte Stream).  
  
A contribution for the need to concatenate optical channels was made 
at the T1X1.5 meeting in March 2001 and was accepted for further 
proposals. This contribution is based on the T1X1.5 contribution and
is presented herein for information only. 

RELATED DOCUMENTS
http://www.t1.org/t1x1/_x1-grid.htm
[1] T1X1.5/2000-157R1 "A Justification for a Variable Bandwidth 
Allocation Methodology for SONET Virtually Concatenated SPEs"
[2] T1X1.5/2000-156 "A Proposal for Variable Bandwidth Allocation (VBA) 
Methodology for SONET Virtually Concatenated SPEs"
[3] T1X1.5/2000-199 "A Proposed Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme (LCAS) 
for SONET Virtually Concatenated SPEs"
[4] T1X1.5/2001-090 "Need for Concatenating Optical Channels to Create a

Transparent High Bandwidth Channels"
[5] T1X1.5/2001-103 "Clarification of T1X1.5/2001-090"

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

WHY IS IT TARGETED AT THIS WG
One of the WG charter includes:
- Document the use of existing framing methods for IP over optical
dataplane and control channels, and as necessary specify additional
framing methods. 
We believe that our document fits nicely to the charter of the WG
mentioned above.  Our document contains why there is a need for optical
channel concatenation and its requirements in IP over DWDM optical
networks.  

JUSTIFICATION
This document is justified for the IPO since it address the need and
requirements for a new framing method referred to as optical channel
concatenation.