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Data Channel Status Confirmation Extensions for the Link Management Protocol
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draft-ietf-ccamp-confirm-data-channel-status-09
Network Working Group                                             D. Li 
Internet Draft                                                    H. Xu 
Category: Standards Track                                        Huawei 
                                                            S. Bardalai 
                                                                Fujitsu 
                                                              J. Meuric 
                                                         France Telecom 
                                                            D. Caviglia 
                                                               Ericsson 
                                                                       
Expires: June 2010                                   December 14, 2009 
 
                                      
                Data Channel Status Confirmation Extensions 
                     for the Link Management Protocol 

            draft-ietf-ccamp-confirm-data-channel-status-09.txt 

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Abstract 

   This document defines simple additions to the Link Management 
   Protocol (LMP) to provide a control plane tool that can assist in 
   the location of stranded resources by allowing adjacent Label-
   Switching Routers (LSRs) to confirm data channel statuses, and 
   provides triggers for notifying the management plane if any 
   discrepancies are found. As LMP is already used to verify data plane 

 
 
 
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   connectivity, it is considered to be an appropriate candidate to 
   support this feature. 

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 [RFC2119]. 

Table of Contents 

    
   1. Introduction.................................................2 
   2. Problem Explanation..........................................4 
      2.1. Mismatch Caused by Manual Configuration.................4 
      2.2. Mismatch Caused by LSP Deletion.........................5 
      2.3. Failed Resources........................................6 
   3. Motivation...................................................6 
   4. Extensions to LMP............................................7 
      4.1. Confirm Data Channel Status Messages....................7 
         4.1.1. ConfirmDataChannelStatus Messages..................7 
         4.1.2. ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck Messages...............8 
         4.1.3. ConfirmDataChannelStatusNack Messages..............8 
      4.2. Data Channel Status Subobject...........................9 
      4.3. Message Construction...................................10 
      4.4. Backward Compatibility.................................10 
   5. Procedures..................................................10 
   6. Security Considerations.....................................12 
   7. IANA Considerations.........................................12 
      7.1. LMP Message Types......................................12 
      7.2. LMP Data Link Object Subobject.........................12 
   8. Acknowledgments.............................................13 
   9. References..................................................13 
      9.1. Normative References...................................13 
      9.2. Informative References.................................13 
   10. Authors' Addresses.........................................14 
   11. Full Copyright Statement...................................15 
   12. Intellectual Property Statement............................15 
   13. Disclaimer of Validity.....................................16 
    
1. Introduction 

   Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) networks are 
   constructed from Traffic Engineering (TE) links connecting Label 
   Switching Routers (LSRs). The TE links are constructed from a set of 
   data channels. In this context, a data channel corresponds to a 

 
 
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   resource label in a non-packet technology (such as a timeslot or a 
   lambda).  

   A data channel status mismatch exists if the LSR at one end of a TE 
   link believes that the data channel is assigned to carry data, but 
   the LSR at the other end does not. The term "ready to carry data" 
   means cross-connected or bound to an end-point for the receipt or 
   delivery of data. 

   Data channel mismatches cannot be detected from the TE information 
   advertised by the routing protocols [RFC4203], [RFC5307]. The 
   existence of some data channel mismatch problems may be detected by 
   a mismatch in the advertised bandwidths where bidirectional TE links 
   and bidirectional services are in use, but where unidirectional 
   services exist, or where multiple data channel mismatches occur, it 
   is not possible to detect such errors through the routing protocol-
   advertised TE information. In any case, there is no mechanism to 
   isolate the mismatches by determining which data channels are at 
   fault. 

   If a data channel mismatch exists, any attempt to use the data 
   channel for a new Label Switched Path (LSP) will fail. One end of 
   the TE link may attempt to assign the TE link for use, but the other 
   end will report the data channel as unavailable when the control 
   plane or management plane attempts to assign it to an LSP. 

   Although such a situation can be resolved through the use of the 
   Acceptable Label Set object in GMPLS signaling [RFC3473], such a 
   procedure is inefficient since it may require an additional 
   signaling exchange for each LSP that is set up. When many LSPs are 
   to be set up, and when there are many data channel mismatches, such 
   inefficiencies become significant. It is desirable to avoid the 
   additional signaling overhead, and to report the problems to the 
   management plane so that they can be resolved to improve the 
   efficiency of LSP setup. 

   Correspondingly, such a mismatch situation may give rise to 
   misconnections in the data plane especially when LSPs are set up 
   using management plane operations. 

   Resources (data channels) that are in a mismatched state are often 
   described as "stranded resources". They are not in use for any LSP, 
   but they cannot be assigned for use by a new LSP because they appear 
   to be in use. Although it is theoretically possible for management 
   plane applications to audit all network resources to locate stranded 
   resources and to release them, this process is rarely performed 
   because of the difficulty of coordinating different Element 
 
 
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   Management Systems (EMSs), and the associated risks of accidentally 
   releasing in-use resources. It is desirable to have a control plane 
   mechanism that detects and reports stranded resources. 

   This document defines simple additions to the Link Management 
   Protocol (LMP) [RFC4204] to provide a control plane tool that can 
   assist in the location of stranded resources by allowing adjacent 
   LSRs to confirm data channel statuses, and provides triggers for 
   notifying the management plane if any discrepancies are found. As LMP 
   is already used to verify data plane connectivity, it is considered 
   to be an appropriate candidate to support this feature. 

2. Problem Explanation 

   Examples of data channel mismatches are described in the following 
   three scenarios. 

   In all of the scenarios, the specific channel resource of a data link 
   will be unavailable because of the data channel status mismatch, and 
   this channel resource will be wasted. Furthermore, a data channel 
   status mismatch may reduce the possibility of successful LSP 
   establishment, because a data channel status mismatch may result in 
   failure when establishing an LSP.  

   So it is desirable to confirm the data channel statuses as early as 
   possible. 

2.1. Mismatch Caused by Manual Configuration 

   The operator may have configured a cross-connect at only one end of 
   a TE link using an EMS. The resource at one end of the data channel 
   is allocated, but the corresponding resource is still available at 
   the other end of the same data channel. In this case, the data 
   channel may appear to be available for use by the control plane when 
   viewed from one end of the TE link, but will be considered to be 
   unavailable by the other end of the TE link. Alternatively, the 
   available end of the data channel may be cross-connected by the 
   management plane and a misconnection may result from the fact that 
   the other end of the data channel is already cross-connected. 

   Figure 1 shows a data channel between nodes A and B. The resource at 
   A's end of the TE link is allocated through manual configuration, 
   while the resource at B's end of the TE link available, so the data 
   channel status is mismatched. 

                    allocated      available 

 
 
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                       +-+------------+-+ 
                    A  |x|            | |  B 
                       +-+------------+-+ 
                            data channel              
         Figure 1. Mismatch caused by manual configuration 
    
2.2. Mismatch Caused by LSP Deletion 

   The channel status of a data link may become mismatched during the 
   LSP deletion process. If the LSP deletion process is aborted in the 
   middle of the process (perhaps because of a temporary control plane 
   failure), the cross-connect at the upstream node may be removed while 
   the downstream node still keeps its cross-connect, if the LSP 
   deletion was initiated by the source node. 

   For example, in Figure 2 an LSP traverses nodes A, B, and C. Node B 
   resets abnormally when the LSP is being deleted. This results in the 
   cross-connects of node A and C being removed, but the cross-connect 
   of node B still being in use. So the data channel statuses between 
   nodes A and B, and between nodes B and C are both mismatched. 

                       <---------LSP---------> 
                       +-+-------+-+-------+-+          
                       | |       |X|       | |            
                       +-+-------+-+-------+-+     
                        A         B         C  
             Figure 2. Mismatch caused by LSP deletion  

   In [RFC2205] and [RFC3209], a soft state mechanism was defined to 
   prevent state discrepancies between LSRs. Resource ReserVation 
   Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) restart processes ([RFC3473], 
   [RFC5063]) have been defined: adjacent LSRs may resynchronize their 
   control plane state to reinstate information about LSPs that have 
   persisted in the data plane. Both mechanisms aim at keeping state 
   consistency among nodes and allow LSRs to detect mismatched data 
   plane states. The data plane handling of such mismatched state can be 
   treated as a local policy decision. Some deployments may decide to 
   automatically clean up the data plane state so it matches the control 
   plane state, but others may choose to raise an alert to the 
   management plane and leave the data plane untouched just in case it 
   is in use. 

   In such cases, data channel mismatches may arise after restart and 
   might not be cleared up by the restart procedures. 

 
 
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2.3. Failed Resources 

   Even if the situation is not common, it might happen that a 
   termination point of a TE-link is seen as failed by one end, while 
   on the other end it is seen as OK. This problem may arise due to 
   some failure either in the hardware or in the status detection of 
   the termination point. 

   This mismatch in the termination point status can lead to failure 
   in case of bidirectional LSP set-up. 

                      Good           Failed 
                       +-+------------+-+ 
                    A  | |            |X|  B 
                       +-+------------+-+ 
                          data channel 
               Path Message with Upstream Label----> 
                                      
               Figure 3. Mismatch caused by resource failure 

   In this case upstream node chooses to use termination point A in 
   order to receive traffic from downstream node. From the upstream 
   node's point of view, the resource is available thus usable; however, 
   in the downstream node, the corresponding termination point (resource 
   B) is broken. This leads to a set-up failure. 

3. Motivation 

   The requirement does not come from a lack in GMPLS specifications 
   themselves but rather from operational concerns because, in most 
   cases, GMPLS-controlled networks will co-exist with legacy networks 
   and legacy procedures. 

   The protocol extensions defined in this document are intended to 
   detect data plane problems resulting from mis-use or mis-
   configurations triggered by user error, or resulting from failure to 
   clean up the data plane after control plane disconnection. It is 
   anticipated that human mistake is probably the major source of errors 
   to deal with. It is not the intention to provide a protocol mechanism 
   to deal with broken implementations. 

   The procedures defined in this document are designed to be operated 
   on a periodic or on-demand basis. It is NOT RECOMMENDED that the 
   procedures be used to provide a continuous and on-line monitoring 
   process. 

 
 
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   As LMP is already used to verify data plane connectivity, it is 
   considered to be an appropriate candidate to support this feature. 

4. Extensions to LMP 

   A control plane tool to detect and isolate data channel mismatches is 
   provided in this document by simple additions to the Link Management 
   Protocol (LMP) [RFC4204]. It can assist in the location of stranded 
   resources by allowing adjacent LSRs to confirm data channel statuses. 

   Outline procedures are described in this section. More detailed 
   procedures are found in Section 5. 

   The message formats in the sections that follow use Backus-Naur Form 
   (BNF) encoding as defined in [RFC5511]. 

4.1. Confirm Data Channel Status Messages  

   Extensions to LMP to confirm a data channel status are described 
   below. In order to confirm a data channel status, the new LMP 
   messages are sent between adjacent nodes periodically or driven by 
   some event (such as an operator command, a configurable timer, or the 
   rejection of an LSP setup message because of an unavailable resource). 
   The new LMP messages run over the control channel, encapsulated in 
   UDP with an LMP port number and IP addressing as defined in Link 
   Management Protocol (LMP) [RFC4204]. 

   Three new messages are defined to check data channel status: 
   ConfirmDataChannelStatus, ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck, 
   ConfirmDataChannelStatusNack, which are described in detail in the 
   following sections. Message Type numbers are found in Section 7.1. 

4.1.1. ConfirmDataChannelStatus Messages 

   The ConfirmDataChannelStatus message is used to tell the remote end 
   of the data channel what the status of the local end of the data 
   channel is, and to ask the remote end to report its data channel. The 
   message may report on (and request information about) more than one 
   data channel. 

   <ConfirmDataChannelStatus Message> ::= <Common Header> 
                                          <LOCAL_LINK_ID> 
                                          <MESSAGE_ID> 
                                          <DATA_LINK>[<DATA_LINK>...] 
    
   When a node receives the ConfirmDataChannelStatus message, and the 
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   the node compares its own data channel statuses with all of the data 
   channel statuses sent by the remote end in the 
   ConfirmDataChannelStatus message. If a data channel status mismatch 
   is found, this mismatch result is expected to be reported to the 
   management plane for further action. Management plane reporting 
   procedures and actions are outside the scope of this document. 

   If the message is a Confirm Data Channel Status message, and the 
   Message_Id value is less than the largest Message_Id value previously 
   received from the sender for the specified TE link, then the message 
   SHOULD be treated as being out-of-order. 

4.1.2. ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck Messages 

   The ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck message is sent back to the node 
   which originated the ConfirmDataChannelStatus message to return the 
   requested data channel statuses. 

   When the ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck message is received, the node 
   compares the received data channel statuses at the remote end with 
   those at the local end (the same operation as performed by the 
   receiver of the ConfirmDataChannelStatus message). If a data channel 
   status mismatch is found, the mismatch result is expected to be 
   reported to the management plane for further action. 

   <ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck Message> ::= <Common Header> 
                                             <MESSAGE_ID_ACK> 
                                             <DATA_LINK>[<DATA_LINK>...] 
    

   The contents of the MESSAGE_ID_ACK objects MUST be obtained from the 
   ConfirmDataChannelStatus message being acknowledged. 

   Note that the ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck message is used both when 
   the data channel statuses match and when they do not match. 

4.1.3. ConfirmDataChannelStatusNack Messages 

   When a node receives the ConfirmDataChannelStatus message, if the 
   data channel status confirmation procedure is not supported but the 
   message is recognized, a ConfirmDataChannelStatusNack message 
   containing an ERROR_CODE indicating "Channel Status Confirmation 
   Procedure not supported" MUST be sent. 

   If the data channel status confirmation procedure is supported, but 
   the node is unable to begin the procedure, a 
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   indicating "Unwilling to Confirm" MUST be sent. If a 
   ConfirmDataChannelStatusNack message is received with such an 
   ERROR_CODE, the node which originated the ConfirmDataChannelStatus 
   message MAY schedule the ConfirmDataChannelStatus message 
   retransmission after a configured time. A default value of 10 minutes 
   is suggested for this timer. 

   <ConfirmDataChannelStatusNack Message> ::= <Common Header> 
                                              [<LOCAL_LINK_ID>] 
                                              <MESSAGE_ID_ACK> 
                                              <ERROR_CODE> 
     
   The contents of the MESSAGE_ID_ACK objects MUST be obtained from the 
   ConfirmDataChannelStatus message being rejected. 

4.2. Data Channel Status Subobject 

   A new Data Channel Status subobject type is introduced to the DATA 
   LINK object to hold the data channel status and Data Channel 
   Identification. 

   See Section 7.2 for the Subobject Type value. 

    0                   1                   2                   3 
    0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
   |    Type       |    Length     |     Data Channel Status       | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
   |                                                               | 
   //                      Data Channel ID                        // 
   |                                                               | 
   +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ 
    
   Data Channel Status: 

   This is a series of bit flags to indicate the status of the data 
   channel. The following values are defined. 

   0x0000 : The channel is available/free. 
   0x0001 : The channel is unavailable/in-use. 
    
   Data Channel ID 

   This identifies the data channel. The length of this field can be 
   deduced from the Length field in the subobject. Note that all 
   subobjects must be padded to a four byte boundary with trailing zeros. 

 
 
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   If such padding is required, the Length field MUST indicate the 
   length of the subobject up to, but not including, the first byte of 
   padding. Thus, the amount of padding is deduced and not represented 
   in the Length field. 

   Note that the Data Channel ID is given in the context of the sender 
   of the ConfirmChannelStatus message. 

   The data-channel ID must be encoded as a label value. Based on the 
   type of signal e.g. SONET/SDH, Lambda etc. the encoding methodology 
   used will be different. For SONET/SDH the label value is encoded as 
   per [RFC4606]. 

4.3. Message Construction 

   Data_Link Class is included in ConfirmDataChannelStatus and 
   ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck messages, which is defined in section 
   13.12 in [RFC4204]. 

   The status of the TE link end MUST be carried by the Data Channel 
   Status subobject which is defined in section 4.2 of this document. 
   The new subobject MUST be part of Data_Link Class. 

   In the case of SDH/SONET, DATA Channel ID in the new subobject SHOULD 
   be used to identify each timeslot of the data link. 

4.4. Backward Compatibility 

   Some nodes running in the network may only support the LMP Message 
   Types, which are already defined in [RFC4204]. The three new types of 
   LMP message defined in this document can not be recognized by these 
   nodes. The unknown message behavior is not being specified in 
   [RFC4204], it's suggested to discard the unknown message silently. 
   The mechanism defined in this document presumes a certain non-
   standard behavior of existing/non-document supporting nodes. To use 
   this mechanism all nodes MUST have the extensions described in this 
   document for compatibility. 

5. Procedures 

   Adjacent nodes MAY send data channel status confirmation related LMP 
   messages. Periodical timers or some other events requesting the 
   confirmation of channel status for the data link may trigger these 
   messages. It's a local policy decision to start the data channel 
   status confirmation process. The procedure is described below: 

 
 
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   . Initially, the SENDER constructs a ConfirmDataChannelStatus 
      message which MUST contain one or more DATA_LINK objects. 
      DATA_LINK object is defined in [RFC4204]. Each DATA_LINK object 
      MUST contain one or more Data Channel Status subobjects. The Data 
      Channel ID field in the Data Channel Status subobject MUST 
      indicate which data channel needs to be confirmed, and MUST report 
      the data channel status at the SENDER. The 
      ConfirmDataChannelStatus message is sent to the RECEIVER. 

   . Upon reception of a ConfirmDataChannelStatus message, the RECEIVER 
      MUST extract the data channel statuses from the 
      ConfirmDataChannelStatus message, and SHOULD compare these with 
      its data channel statuses for the reported data channels. If a 
      data channel status mismatch is found, the mismatch result SHOULD 
      be reported to the management plane for further action. The 
      RECEIVER also SHOULD send the ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck message 
      which MUST carry all the local end statuses of the requested data 
      channels to the SENDER. 

   . If the RECEIVER is not able to support or to begin the 
      confirmation procedure, the ConfirmDataChannelStatusNack message 
      MUST be responded with the ERROR_CODE which indicates the reason 
      of rejection. 

   . Upon reception of a ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck message, the 
      SENDER MUST compare the received data channel statuses at the 
      remote end with the data channel statuses at the local end. If a 
      data channel status mismatch is found, the mismatch result SHOULD 
      be reported to the management plane for further action. 

   The data channel status mismatch issue identified by LMP may be 
   automatically resolved by RSVP restart. For example, the restarting 
   node may also have damaged its data plane. This leaves the data 
   channels mismatched. But RSVP restart will re-install the data plane 
   state in the restarting node. The issue may also be resolved via RSVP 
   soft state timeout. 

   If the ConfirmDataChannelStatus message is not recognized by the 
   RECEIVER, the RECEIVER ignores this message, and will not send out an 
   acknowledgment message to the SENDER. 

   Due to message loss problem, the SENDER may not be able to receive 
   the acknowledgment message. 

   ConfirmDataChannelStatus SHOULD be sent using LMP [RFC4204] reliable 
   transmission mechanisms. If after the retry limit is reached, a 
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   message is not received by the SENDER, the SENDER SHOULD terminate 
   the data channel confirmation procedure. 

6. Security Considerations 

   [RFC4204] describes how LMP messages between peers can be secured, 
   and these measures are equally applicable to the new messages defined 
   in this document. 

   The operation of the procedures described in this document does not 
   of themselves constitute a security risk since they do not cause any 
   change in network state. It would be possible, if the messages were 
   intercepted or spoofed to cause bogus alerts in the management plane 
   and so the use of the LMP security measures are RECOMMENDED. 

   Note that operating the procedures described in this document may 
   provide a useful additional security measure to verify that data 
   channels have not been illicitly modified. 

7. IANA Considerations 

7.1. LMP Message Types 

   IANA maintains the "Link Management Protocol (LMP)" registry which 
   has a subregistry called "LMP Message Type". IANA is requested to 
   make three new allocations from this registry as follows. The message 
   type values are suggested and to be confirmed by IANA. 

   Value    Description 
   ------   --------------------------------- 
     32     ConfirmDataChannelStatus 
     33     ConfirmDataChannelStatusAck 
     34     ConfirmDataChannelStatusNack 
    

7.2. LMP Data Link Object Subobject 

   IANA maintains the "Link Management Protocol (LMP)" registry which 
   has a subregistry called "LMP Object Class name space and Class type 
   (C-Type)". This subregistry has an entry for the DATA_LINK object, 
   and there is a further embedded registry called "DATA_LINK Sub-object 
   Class name space". IANA is requested to make the following allocation 
   from this embedded registry. The value shown is suggested and to be 
   confirmed by IANA. 

 
 
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   Value    Description 
   ------   --------------------------------- 
     9      Data Channel Status 
    

8. Acknowledgments 

   We would like to thank Adrian Farrel, Dimitri Papadimitriou, Lou 
   Berger for their useful comments. 

9. References 

9.1. Normative References 

   [RFC2119]   Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate 
               Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997. 

   [RFC4204]   J. Lang, Ed., "Link Management Protocol (LMP)", RFC 4204, 
               October 2005. 

   [RFC5511]   A. Farrel, Ed., "Routing Backus-Naur Form (RBNF): A 
               Syntax Used to Form Encoding Rules in Various Routing 
               Protocol Specifications", RFC 5511, April 2009. 

9.2. Informative References 

   [RFC2205]  R. Braden, Ed., "Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) --
               Version 1 Functional Specification", RFC 2205, September 
               1997 

   [RFC3209]  D. Awduche, L. Berger, D. Gan, T. Li, V. Srinivasan, G. 
               Swallow, "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels", 
               RFC 3209, December 2001 

   [RFC3473]  L. Berger, Ed., "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label 
               Switching (GMPLS) Signaling Resource ReserVation 
               Protocol-Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) Extensions", RFC 
               3473, January 2003 

   [RFC5063]  A. Satyanarayana, R. Rahman, "Extensions to GMPLS RSVP 
               Graceful Restart", RFC 5063, September 2007 

   [RFC4203]  K. Kompella, Ed., "OSPF Extensions in Support of 
               Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)", RFC 
               4203, October 2005 

 
 
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   [RFC4606]   E. Mannie, Ed., "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label 
               Switching (GMPLS) Extensions for Synchronous Optical 
               Network (SONET) and Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) 
               Control", RFC 4606, August 2006 

   [RFC5307]  K. Kompella, Ed., "IS-IS Extensions in Support of 
               Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)", RFC 
               5307, October 2008 

10. Authors' Addresses 

   Dan Li
   Huawei Technologies
   F3-5-B R&D Center, Huawei Base,
   Shenzhen 518129 China

   Phone: +86 755-289-70230
   Email: danli@huawei.com

   Huiying Xu
   Huawei Technologies
   F3-5-B R&D Center, Huawei Base,
   Shenzhen 518129 China

   Phone: +86 755-289-72910
   Email: xuhuiying@huawei.com

   Fatai Zhang
   Huawei Technologies
   F3-5-B R&D Center, Huawei Base,
   Shenzhen 518129 China

   Phone: +86 755-289-72912
   Email: zhangfatai@huawei.com

   Snigdho C. Bardalai
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   Phone: +1 972 479 2951
   Email: snigdho.bardalai@us.fujitsu.com

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