Subject: [CCAMP] draft-beeram-ccamp-gmpls-uni-bcp

From: Igor Bryskin <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:23:07 +0000

Hello CCAMPers,

We have submitted a new IETF draft: draft-beeram-ccamp-gmpls-uni-bcp.
The purpose of the draft is to compliment RFC4208 by describing how GMPLS UNI can be used in multi-vendor transport network configurations where a single or multiple independent sets of Users are interconnected over the same optical layer network domain. Specifically, it is described how, in accordance with operator policies, a limited view of Network resources could be provided separately to each set of Users in the form of topology made of virtual or/and real TE links and nodes sufficient for a User to compute two or more SRLG-diverse paths connecting the User to another User across the Network.

The said sets of Users can exist in the same (optical) or separate layer networks. Within a given layer network the sets of Users can exist within the same or different VPNs.

From the routing perspective, the Network and the Users can share the same single- or multi-area IGP, or use separate instances of IGP.

From the signaling perspective the Users are given a good deal of transparency. The intention is to make sure that as long as a pair of Users, when directly connected, can interoperate using any form of RSVP-TE protocol, they should continue to do so when connected over the Network. In particular, any number of proprietary RSVP object types is allowed.

Co-authers.