RE: WG Consensus Call: draft-swallow-gmpls-overlay-00.txt

[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

Hi Lyndon,

On Tue, 10 Dec 2002, Ong, Lyndon wrote:

> Excuse my ignorance of the past history on this, but why are
> the MPLS and GMPLS architecture documents Standards Track?
> Most architecture documents I've seen have been Informational

A fair question.

A document is standards track (or informational, or BCP) because
of its contents, not because of what other similar documents are.
I am not in a position to comment on the MPLS arch doc, but the
GMPLS arch doc has many prescriptive statements that would make it
at least a BCP, and very likely a PS.  It also provides the glue
between all the PS docs that make up the GMPLS suite; and that role
also suggests that it be PS.

Kireeti.