Evaluation of Existing Routing Protocols against Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON) Routing Requirements
RFC 4652
Network Working Group D. Papadimitriou, Ed.
Request for Comments: 4652 Alcatel
Category: Informational L.Ong
Ciena
J. Sadler
Tellabs
S. Shew
Nortel
D. Ward
Cisco
October 2006
Evaluation of Existing Routing Protocols against
Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON) Routing Requirements
Status of This Memo
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not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this
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Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2006).
Abstract
The Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) suite of protocols has been defined to
control different switching technologies as well as different
applications. These include support for requesting TDM connections
including Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
(SONET/SDH) and Optical Transport Networks (OTNs).
This document provides an evaluation of the IETF Routing Protocols
against the routing requirements for an Automatically Switched
Optical Network (ASON) as defined by ITU-T.
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1. Introduction
Certain capabilities are needed to support the ITU-T Automatically
Switched Optical Network (ASON) control plane architecture as defined
in [G.8080].
[RFC4258] details the routing requirements for the GMPLS routing
suite of protocols to support the capabilities and functionality of
ASON control planes identified in [G.7715] and in [G.7715.1]. The
ASON routing architecture provides for a conceptual reference
architecture, with definition of functional components and common
information elements to enable end-to-end routing in the case of
protocol heterogeneity and to facilitate management of ASON networks.
This description is only conceptual: no physical partitioning of
these functions is implied.
However, [RFC4258] does not address GMPLS routing protocol
applicability or capabilities. This document evaluates the IETF
Routing Protocols against the requirements identified in [RFC4258].
The result of this evaluation is detailed in Section 5. Close
examination of applicability scenarios and the result of the
evaluation of these scenarios are provided in Section 6.
ASON (Routing) terminology sections are provided in Appendices A and
B.
2. Conventions Used in This Document
The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
"SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
document are to be interpreted as described in RFC 2119 [RFC2119].
The reader is expected to be familiar with the terminology introduced
in [RFC4258].
3. Contributors
This document is the result of the CCAMP Working Group ASON Routing
Solution design team's joint effort.
Dimitri Papadimitriou (Alcatel, Team Leader and Editor)
EMail: dimitri.papadimitriou@alcatel.be
Chris Hopps (Cisco)
EMail: chopps@rawdofmt.org
Lyndon Ong (Ciena Corporation)
EMail: lyong@ciena.com
Jonathan Sadler (Tellabs)
EMail: jonathan.sadler@tellabs.com
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Stephen Shew (Nortel Networks)
EMail: sdshew@nortel.com
Dave Ward (Cisco)
EMail: dward@cisco.com
4. Requirements: Overview
The following functionality is expected from GMPLS routing protocols
to instantiate the ASON hierarchical routing architecture realization
(see [G.7715] and [G.7715.1]):
- Routing Areas (RAs) shall be uniquely identifiable within a
carrier's network, each having a unique RA Identifier (RA ID)
within the carrier's network.
- Within a RA (one level), the routing protocol shall support
dissemination of hierarchical routing information (including
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