A Thesaurus for the Interpretation of Terminology Used in MPLS Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) Internet-Drafts and RFCs in the Context of the ITU-T's Transport Network Recommendations
draft-ietf-mpls-tp-rosetta-stone-13

[Ballot comment]
Section 1.1 "contributing authors" should be called "Contributors" section.
See http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/62/slides/editor-0.pdf, slide 37
Let's not invent a new term.

OAM stands for "Operations, Administration and Maintenance"
Section 1 mentions "Operation, Administration and Management". Please correct this.

[Ballot comment]
I would be a "Yes" if I understood the technology better. This is very good, and very helpful. I wish I'd had a doc like this as a Gen-ART reviewer.

I did have a couple of questions you might want to consider, along with any other comments you receive during IESG evaluation.

In section 1.1 Contributing Authors

  Italo Busi, Ben Niven-Jenkins, Enrique Hernandez-Valencia, Lieven
  Levrau, Dinesh Mohan, Stuart Bryant, Dan Frost, Matthew Bocci,

                        ^ this isn't Stewart Bryant, is it? :-)

  Vincenzo Sestito, Vigoureux, Yaacov Weingarten

In section 3.19 Maintenance Entity Group End Point (MEP):

  Maintenance Entity Group End Points (MEPs) are the end points of a
  pre-configured (through the management or control planes) ME.  MEPs
  are responsible for activating and controlling all of the OAM
  functionality for the ME. A source MEP may initiate an OAM packet to
  be transferred to its corresponding peer or sink MEP, or to an
  intermediate MIP that is part of the ME. See also [RFC6371] section
  3.3 and [ITU-T G.8113.1], [ITU-T G.8113.2] clause 6.3.

Are "peer" and "sink" being used as synonyms? Is that normal optical terminology? in which case, tell me "yes" ...

[Ballot comment]
The well done shepherd writeup clearly tells us that this document has been widely reviewed and is widely seen as a useful tool.  Given that and a quick breeze through it, I see nothing that I might even consider objecting to.

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- 'A Thesaurus for the Terminology used in Multiprotocol Label Switching
  Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) drafts/RFCs and ITU-T's Transport
  Network Recommendations.'
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Abstract

  MPLS-TP is based on a profile of the MPLS and PW procedures as
  specified in the MPLS-TE and (MS-)PW architectures developed by the
  IETF.  The ITU-T has specified a Transport Network architecture.

  This document provides a thesaurus for the interpretation of MPLS-TP
  terminology within the context of the ITU-T Transport Network
  recommendations.

  It is important to note that MPLS-TP is applicable in a wider set of
  contexts than just Transport Networks.  The definitions presented in
  this document do not provide exclusive nor complete interpretations
  of MPLS-TP concepts.  This document simply allows the MPLS-TP terms
  to be applied within the Transport Network context.


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