Title: Liaison to IETF on Flex Ethernet for IP/MPLS Networks Submission Date: 2017-05-18 URL of the IETF Web page: https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1523/
From: Michael Fargano <[email protected]> To: Vishnu Pavan Beeram <[email protected]>, Lou Berger <[email protected]>,Nicolai Leymann <[email protected]>,Loa Andersson <[email protected]>,George Swallow <[email protected]>,Jonathan Hardwick <[email protected]>,JP Vasseur <[email protected]>,Julien Meuric <[email protected]>,Daniele Ceccarelli <[email protected]>,Fatai Zhang <[email protected]> Cc: Alvaro Retana <[email protected]>,Deborah Brungard <[email protected]>,Julien Meuric <[email protected]>,Multiprotocol Label Switching Discussion List <[email protected]>,David Sinicrope <[email protected]>,Jonathan Hardwick <[email protected]>,Fatai Zhang <[email protected]>,George Swallow <[email protected]>,Path Computation Element Discussion List <[email protected]>,JP Vasseur <[email protected]>,Vishnu Beeram <[email protected]>,Alia Atlas <[email protected]>,Daniele Ceccarelli <[email protected]>,Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling Discussion List <[email protected]>,Loa Andersson <[email protected]>,Lou Berger <[email protected]>,Common Control and Measurement Plane Discussion List <[email protected]>,Nicolai Leymann <[email protected]> Response Contacts: [email protected], [email protected] Technical Contacts: Purpose: For information Body: At our 2017Q2 meeting in Taipei, the Broadband Forum initiated a new project entitled “Applicability of Flex Ethernet in IP/MPLS Networks”. This project addresses the architecture, requirements and use cases in IP/MPLS networks to deploy Flex Ethernet (a.k.a. FlexE) as a new type of nodal interface. OIF published “Flex Ethernet Implementation Agreement” (IA OIF-FLEXE-01.0) in March 2016. Our project intends to use FlexE and its related aspects specified by that document including data plane characteristics and provisioning requirements in IP/MPLS networks, including: • Interconnection between routers on FlexE interfaces in IP/MPLS networks. • End-to-end MPLS LSPs on FlexE-based channels. • Control plane protocols (e.g. RSVP-TE, PCEP) including their extensions and their applicability aspects for managing FlexE based MPLS LSP. • Aspects of using FlexE interfaces and FlexE-based MPLS LSP as a network slicing instance. • Co-existence of FlexE-based and other data link based MPLS LSPs and their operation. • New services and applications that FlexE-capable IP/MPLS networks can enable. We are sending this liaison to inform you about our intention. We noticed that there are IETF drafts at CCAMP WG that propose to use GMPLS protocols with extensions to support FlexE based MPLS LSP; we are interested in learning the progress and status of the progress. Sincerely, Michael Fargano, Broadband Forum Technical Committee Chair Attachments: Liaison to IETF CCAMP on FlexE-Cheng-Huawei https://www.ietf.org/lib/dt/documents/LIAISON/liaison-2017-05-18-broadband-forum-mpls-ccamp-pce-teas-liaison-to-ietf-on-flex-ethernet-for-ipmpls-networks-attachment-1.pdf _______________________________________________ Pce mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pce
