Technical Summary
The draft documents extensions to the VPLS PE model
required to incorporate desirable IEEE PBB (Provider
Backbone Bridges) components, such as enhanced
scalability in terms of number of customer MAC
addresses and number of service instances, whilst
maintaining the Service Provider alignment of VPLS -
which has been deployed on a large scale in many
Service Provider networks.
Working Group Summary
This document is an L2VPN Working Group document,
and has been well reviewed in the working group through
multiple iterations of the draft. It has been essentially stable
since WG adoption in May 2009.
Document Quality
The document is concise (13 pages of which about 6 are
substantive - the rest being introduction, terminology,
references and acknowledgements) and is stable.
There are multiple interoperable implementations by
multiple vendors.
Personnel
Document Shepherd: Giles Heron (giheron@cisco.com)
Area Director: Stewart Bryant (stbryant@cisco.com)