%% You should probably cite draft-ietf-pce-state-sync-07 instead of this revision. @techreport{ietf-pce-state-sync-01, number = {draft-ietf-pce-state-sync-01}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pce-state-sync/01/}, author = {Stephane Litkowski and Siva Sivabalan and Cheng Li and Haomian Zheng}, title = {{Inter Stateful Path Computation Element (PCE) Communication Procedures.}}, pagetotal = 32, year = 2021, month = oct, day = 21, abstract = {The Path Computation Element Communication Protocol (PCEP) provides mechanisms for Path Computation Elements (PCEs) to perform path computation in response to a Path Computation Client (PCC) request. The Stateful PCE extensions allow stateful control of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Traffic Engineering (TE) Label Switched Paths (LSPs) using PCEP. A Path Computation Client (PCC) can synchronize an LSP state information to a Stateful Path Computation Element (PCE). A PCC can have multiple PCEP sessions towards multiple PCEs. There are some use cases, where an inter-PCE stateful communication can bring additional resiliency in the design, for instance when some PCC-PCE session fails. This document describes the procedures to allow a stateful communication between PCEs for various use-cases and also the procedures to prevent computations loops.}, }