RE: VCAT/LCAS

["Vishal Sharma" <v.sharma@ieee.org>]

Hi Adrian,

I've had occasion to look at this work, and think it is a useful
work item, and support it.

-Vishal 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org [mailto:owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org]
On Behalf Of Adrian Farrel
Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2005 4:27 PM
To: ccamp@ops.ietf.org
Subject: VCAT/LCAS

Hi,

In Vancouver there was clear support in the room that a group
wanted to work on this topic.

draft-bernstein-ccamp-gmpls-vcat-lcas-01 was submitted in October
and provides a fair summary of the problem space in sections 1
and 2.

The draft fades out in section 3 "Possible Extensions to GMPLS to
support additional VCAT/LCAS scenarios" as it starts to identify
the specific requirements to extend GMPLS protocols.

I suggest that the authors should:
- gather a group of interest parties to work on this
- keep in mind that protocol extensions are done in support of
  implementations (that is, not for completeness, but because
someone
  is building product)
- beef up section 3 to list the requirements
- write a new section for the solutions

I think that we will be able to adopt this work as a WG draft,
but we should not do that until we have seen a first stab at the
protocol extensions.

If the authors could let us know their progress and plans, that
would be great.

Thanks,
Adrian