Label Switching Router Self-Test
draft-ietf-mpls-lsr-self-test-07

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Announcement

From: The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org>
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Cc: Internet Architecture Board <iab@iab.org>,
    RFC Editor <rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org>, 
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Subject: Protocol Action: 'Label Switching Router Self-Test' to 
         Proposed Standard 

The IESG has approved the following document:

- 'Label Switching Router Self-Test '
   <draft-ietf-mpls-lsr-self-test-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard

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

The IESG contact persons are Ross Callon and David Ward.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-mpls-lsr-self-test-07.txt

Ballot Text

Technical Summary
 
   This document defines a means for a Label-Switching Router to
   verify that its data plane is functioning for certain key Multi-
   Protocol Label Switching applications, including unicast
   forwarding and traffic engineering tunnels.  A new Loopback FEC
   type is defined to allow an upstream neighbor to assist in the
   testing at very low cost.  MPLS Verification Request and MPLS
   Verification Reply messages are defined to do the actual probing.
 
Working Group Summary
 
   No dissent. 
 
Protocol Quality
 
   Ross Callon has reviewed this for the IESG. It has not been 
   implemented yet as far as I know. 

Note to RFC Editor
 
   Currently the acronym FEC (forwarding equivalence class) is defined   
   the third time it is used, in the third paragraph of section 1. This 
   spelling out of the acronym should probably be moved to the first 
   time that FEC is used (other than the abstract), in the second
   paragraph of section 1. 

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