Proxy MPLS Echo Request
draft-ietf-mpls-proxy-lsp-ping-05

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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Proxy MPLS Echo Request' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-mpls-proxy-lsp-ping-05.txt)

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Proxy MPLS Echo Request'
  (draft-ietf-mpls-proxy-lsp-ping-05.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the Multiprotocol Label Switching Working
Group.

The IESG contact persons are Alia Atlas and Adrian Farrel.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-mpls-proxy-lsp-ping/

Ballot Text

Technical Summary

   This document defines a means of remotely initiating Multiprotocol
   Label Switched Protocol Pings on Label Switched Paths. An MPLS Proxy
   Ping Request is sent to any Label Switching Router along a Label
   Switched Path. The primary motivations for this facility are first to
   limit the number of messages and related processing when using LSP
   Ping in large Point-to-Multipoint LSPs, and second to enable leaf to
   leaf/root tracing.

Working Group Summary

     The working group process has been smooth. We had comparatively few 
     comments (all of the supportive) during the WGLC, but had a good
     discussion during the MPLS-RT review (April 2013). No points of 
     particular rough consensus: the working group is behind this document.

Document Quality

     We  know of  implementations of this specification.

Personnel

      Loa Andersson is the Document Shepherd.
      Adrian Farrel is the responsible AD

RFC Editor Note