Technical Summary
RFC5254 describes the service provider requirements for extending the
reach of pseudowires (PW) across multiple Packet Switched Network
domains. A Multi-Segment PW is defined as a set of two or more
contiguous PW segments that behave and function as a single point-
to-point PW. This document describes extensions to the PW control
protocol to dynamically place the segments of the multi-segment
pseudowire among a set of Provider Edge (PE) routers. This document
also updates RFC6073 as follows: it updates the value of the length
field of the PW Switching Point PE Sub-TLV Type 0x06 to 14.
Working Group Summary
The working group process was pretty straightforward, though
sometimes a bit slow since it has been waiting for completion of
other documents. Several individual proposals were intiially sent
to the PWE3 group to suggest solutions to the Dynamic MS-PW space.
The working group requested that they were merged into a single
document. This document were accepted as a working group
document. To the shepherd's knowledge, there is no dissent
regarding the final version of thedocument.
Document Quality
The document is well reviewed and the shepherd has no concerns
about the level of review.
The working group mailing list has been polled about implementations
of this draft.
We know existing implementations of this draft, and we know
of further vendors that has stated that they will implement the
draft. We also have indications that the implementations have
been deployed.
Personnel
Loa Andersson is the Document Shepherd
Adrian Farrel is the Responsible AD
RFC Editor Note
The RFC editor will want to discuss with the document editors which
names to include in the Authors' Addresses section