Applicability of a Stateful Path Computation Element (PCE)
RFC 8051

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8051, changed title to 'Applicability of a Stateful Path Computation Element (PCE)', changed abstract to 'A stateful Path Computation Element (PCE) maintains information about Label Switched Path (LSP) characteristics and resource usage within a network in order to provide traffic-engineering calculations for its associated Path Computation Clients (PCCs).  This document describes general considerations for a stateful PCE deployment and examines its applicability and benefits, as well as its challenges and limitations, through a number of use cases.  PCE Communication Protocol (PCEP) extensions required for stateful PCE usage are covered in separate documents.', changed pages to 24, changed standardization level to Informational, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2017-01-06, changed IESG state to RFC Published)