MPLS draft-kompella-mpls-bundle-05.txt

[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

NAME OF I-D:

  http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-kompella-mpls-bundle-05.txt

SUMMARY

  This ID describes how parallel links between a pair of routers can
  be treated as a single "bundle" as far as their TE information is
  concerned, for reasons of better scalability.  Additionally, the
  mechanisms for RSVP-TE and CR-LDP to do traffic admission and
  bandwidth accounting on bundles is described.


RELATED DOCUMENTS

  none


WHERE DOES IT FIT IN THE PICTURE OF THE SUB-IP WORK

  Belongs in MPLS.  The ID explains how to control and measure
  TE info for a "bundle".


WHY IS IT TARGETED AT THIS WG

  This ID extends the mechanisms and procedures of RSVP-TE and CR-LDP
  and hence belongs in MPLS.


JUSTIFICATION

  The primary motivation for this work is scalability of TE info.
  This is useful for packet-switched networks, as well as for
  optical networks, where the number of parallel links (fibers,
  lambdas in a fiber, ...) are very large.

  There was a lot of discussion in the MPLS over this draft; the
  consensus was that this ID addressed a real requirement, and there
  was wide support to make it a MPLS WG document.

Kireeti.