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RFC 6723
Title: Update of the Pseudowire Control-Word
Negotiation Mechanism
Author: L. Jin, Ed.,
R. Key, Ed.,
S. Delord,
T. Nadeau,
S. Boutros
Status: Standards Track
Stream: IETF
Date: September 2012
Mailbox: [email protected],
[email protected],
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Pages: 9
Characters: 20307
Updates: RFC4447, RFC6073
I-D Tag: draft-ietf-pwe3-cbit-negotiation-05.txt
URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6723.txt
The control-word negotiation mechanism specified in RFC 4447 has a
problem when a PE (Provider Edge) changes the preference for the use
of the control word from NOT PREFERRED to PREFERRED. This document
updates RFC 4447 and RFC 6073 by adding the Label Request message to
resolve this control-word negotiation issue for single-segment and
multi-segment pseudowires. [STANDARDS-TRACK]
This document is a product of the Pseudowire Emulation Edge to Edge Working
Group of the IETF.
This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.
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