Subject: RE: Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-tp-p2mp-framework-05.txt> (A Framework for Point-to-Multipoint MPLS in Transport Networks) to Informational RFC

From: "Adrian Farrel" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 2014 12:16:29 -0000

So this doesn't get lost, here comments I sent to the authors before starting
IETF last call...

> Dan will probably want to update his coordinates.
>
> ---
>
> You don't need to be so enthusiastic with your acronyms in Section 1.2
> The following are "well known" according to
> http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-style-guide/abbrev.expansion.txt
>
>   GMPLS   Generalized MPLS
>   LDP     Label Distribution Protocol
>   MPLS    Multiprotocol Label Switching
>
> There is a serial comma missing from
>    OAM     Operations, Administration and Maintenance
> The comma is also missing in your text.
>
> ---
>
> In Section 1.3 you say
>
>   There is no definition for MPLS TE-LSP support of multipoint-to-
>   multipoint connectivity and none is anticipated.
>
> Without opening up a discussion of whether what you cay is true, can you
> say why it is relevant? Perhaps "This document is limited to a 
> discussion of point-to-multipoint function and does not discuss 
> multipoint-to-multipoint support." You might also move this to Section
> 1.1.

> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: [mpls] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-tp-p2mp-framework-05.txt> (A
> Framework for Point-to-Multipoint MPLS in Transport Networks) to Informational
> RFC
> 
> 
> The IESG has received a request from the Multiprotocol Label Switching WG
> (mpls) to consider the following document:
> - 'A Framework for Point-to-Multipoint MPLS in Transport Networks'
>   <draft-ietf-mpls-tp-p2mp-framework-05.txt> as Informational RFC
> 
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> Abstract
> 
>    The Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile is the common set
>    of MPLS protocol functions defined to enable the construction and
>    operation of packet transport networks.  The MPLS-TP supports both
>    point-to-point and point-to-multipoint transport paths.  This
>    document defines the elements and functions of the MPLS-TP
>    architecture applicable specifically to supporting point-to-
>    multipoint transport paths.
> 
> 
> The file can be obtained via
> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-tp-p2mp-framework/
> 
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