The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Interworking of GMPLS Control and Centralized Controller Systems' (draft-ietf-teas-gmpls-controller-inter-work-17.txt) as Informational RFC
This document is the product of the Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Gunter Van de Velde, Jim Guichard and John Scudder. A URL of this Internet-Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-gmpls-controller-inter-work/ Technical Summary Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) control allows each network element (NE) to perform local resource discovery, routing and signaling in a distributed manner. On the other hand, with the development of software-defined transport networking technology, a set of NEs can be controlled via centralized controller hierarchies to address the issues from multi- domain, multi-vendor, and multi-technology. An example of such centralized architecture is Abstraction and Control of Traffic Engineered Networks (ACTN) controller hierarchy described in RFC 8453. Instead of competing with each other, both the distributed and the centralized control plane have their own advantages, and should be complementary in the system. This document describes how the GMPLS distributed control plane can interwork with a centralized controller system in a transport network. Working Group Summary Strong consensus from a few individuals and no objections received during WG LC. Document Quality There are no protocol extensions and the document is informational in nature. Personnel The Document Shepherd for this document is Vishnu Pavan Beeram. The Responsible Area Director is Jim Guichard. _______________________________________________ IETF-Announce mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]
