%% You should probably cite draft-ietf-pwe3-endpoint-fast-protection instead of this I-D. @techreport{shen-pwe3-endpoint-fast-protection-03, number = {draft-shen-pwe3-endpoint-fast-protection-03}, type = {Internet-Draft}, institution = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, publisher = {Internet Engineering Task Force}, note = {Work in Progress}, url = {https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-shen-pwe3-endpoint-fast-protection/03/}, author = {Yimin Shen and Rahul Aggarwal and Wim Henderickx}, title = {{PW Endpoint Fast Failure Protection}}, pagetotal = 28, year = 2013, month = feb, day = 8, abstract = {This document specifies a fast mechanism for protecting pseudowires (PWs) against egress endpoint failures, including egress attachment circuit failure, egress PE failure, multi-segment PW terminating PE failure, and multi-segment PW switching PE failure. Designed on the basis of multi-homed CE, PW redundancy, upstream label assignment and context specific label switching, the mechanism enables local repair to be performed by a router upstream adjacent to a failure. In particular, the router can restore PW traffic in the order of tens of milliseconds, by transmitting the traffic to a protector through a pre-established bypass tunnel. Therefore, the mechanism can be used to reduce traffic loss before a global repair mechanism reacts to the failure or the network converges on the topology changes due to the failure.}, }