Title: Liaison from the MPLS & Frame Relay Alliance on draft-ck-bgp-atm-nlri-00.txt Date: 7 October 2004 From: Alexa Morris This email is being sent on behalf of Rao Cherukuri, rcheruku@cisco.com. Sue and Yakov, The MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance (MFA) is working on Implementation Agreements regarding ATM-MPLS Control Plane Interworking. This work builds on the ATM encapsulation defined by the PWE3 WG. In the context of this work, MFA has come to the conclusion that in certain cases it would be advantageous to use Multi-Protocol BGP to transport ATM reachability information between independent ATM islands across an MPLS core network. Internet-Draft draft-ck-bgp-atm-nlri-00.txt describes the reference architecture, problem statement and a possible solution. Since this draft accurately reflects the reference architecture and problem statement that the MFA is working on, we would appreciate it if the IDR WG would accept the draft as a Working Group document and would work with the authors to progress this to an RFC. Cordially, Rao Cherukuri Chairman, MPLS and Frame Relay Alliance Technical Committee