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RE: Proposed response to the Liaison Statement on ASON Routing



I am kind of surprised that I (believe I) did not yet see
any comments. Neither positive nor negative ???

Thanks,
Bert 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kireeti Kompella [mailto:kireeti@juniper.net]
> Sent: vrijdag 11 april 2003 20:01
> To: ccamp@ops.ietf.org
> Cc: sob@harvard.edu
> Subject: Proposed response to the Liaison Statement on ASON Routing
> 
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> Here's a proposed response to the Liaison Statement from the ITU-T
> Study Group 15, Q 12, 14/15 on ASON Routing Activities, dated January
> 31, 2003.
> 
> Please post any comments you have to the CCAMP list; we would like to
> send this by COB Friday April 18.
> 
> Kireeti.
> --------------------------------------------------------------------
> Dear Mr. Lam,
> 
> > Q.14/15 would like to inform the IETF CCAMP Working Group 
> and the Sub-IP
> > Area Directors that Q.14/15 is beginning work in defining 
> the connection
> > routing protocols for use in ASON networks, and requests 
> the benefit of
> > the IETF's expertise in this area.
> 
> The IETF CCAMP WG would be glad to help.
> 
> > Q.12/15 has also developed an amendment to ITU-T 
> Recommendation G.8080
> > (Architecture for the Automatically Switched Optical 
> Network) to provide
> > clarification on naming and structure of the network for routing and
> > signalling and add architectural support for discovery 
> procedures and
> > protection/restoration.
> >
> > A set of protocol-independent high level routing architecture and
> > requirements has already been specified in ITU-T 
> Recommendation G.7715
> > (see below) and Q. 14/15 has initiated work on a new draft 
> recommendation
> > (numbered G.7715.1) describing the requirements for a 
> link-state method
> > routing protocol for ASON.
> >
> > Some of the following requirements have been identified:
> >
> > 1.       The routing protocol should support partitioning 
> of transport
> > networks that may be controlled by using multiple instances 
> of different
> > routing protocols at different levels.
> >
> > 2.       The routing protocol should support separation of 
> control and
> > data (i.e, transport) planes such that data and control 
> entities are not
> > required to be co-located, and the scope of the data plane 
> resources seen
> > by a routing function is not limited.
> >
> > 3.       The routing protocol should support distribution, 
> abstraction and
> > filtering of information within hierarchical and partitioning
> > relationships.
> >
> > 4.      The routing protocol should support independence of 
> inter-domain
> > and intra-domain routing protocols.
> >
> > It should be noted that the scope of this work is limited 
> to routing of
> > transport connections within ASON networks.
> 
> We believe that the link-state routing paradigm that is being 
> progressed
> at the IETF in the CCAMP WG in conjunction with the OSPF and ISIS WGs,
> does meet the above requirements.  Some of this has not been 
> articulated
> as well as it should be; we are addressing this.
> 
> > Q.12 and Q.14/15 wish to work cooperatively with IETF in 
> order to reach a
> > common understanding of respective terminology and 
> available mechanisms.
> 
> That is an excellent goal.  We would be glad to work with you 
> to achieve
> this; similar work is already under way for signaling and protection &
> restoration.
> 
> > An interim meeting of Q.14/15 will be held on 9-13 June 
> 2003, located in
> > Chicago .  The Rapporteur for Q.14/15 invites the participation of
> > interested IETF members in discussions of ASON routing 
> protocols at this
> > meeting, and invites comments and input from IETF community 
> to progress
> > this work.  Those interested in attending the interim meeting should
> > contact the Rapporteur for Q.14/15 (H. Kam Lam, 
> hklam@lucent.com) by May
> > 27, 2003.  Any contributions directed to the meeting must 
> be submitted by
> > June 2, 2003.
> 
> Thank you for the invitation.  Several interested 
> participants from the
> CCAMP WG are making arrangments to attend; if at all possible, the
> chairs of the CCAMP WG will attend as well.  In particular, we plan to
> make a presentation stating how the proposed link-state 
> routing structure
> in the IETF addresses the requirements for ASON networks.
> 
> > Approved Recommendation G.7715  and the consented amendment to
> > Recommendation G.8080 may be obtained from the ccamp link at:
> >
> > 
ftp://sg15opticalt:otxchange@ftp.itu.int/tsg15opticaltransport/COMMUNICATIONS/in
dex.html

Thank you for making this available.

Kireeti Kompella & Ron Bonica
CCAMP WG chairs