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IETF MPLS WG

• IETF Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) WG
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  • An archive of RFCs and IDs

Meetings

• 52nd IETF (Dec 2001, Salt Lake City)
  • MPLS WG meeting (agenda)
• 51st IETF (Aug 2001, London)
  • MPLS WG meeting (agenda, Presentations)
  • IPO WG meeting (agenda)
  • PPVPN WG meeting (agenda)
• 50th IETF (Mar 2001, Minneapolis)
  • MPLS WG meeting (proceedings) (agenda, minutes)
  • CCAMP WG meeting (proceedings) (agenda)
• 49th IETF (Dec 2000, San Diego)
  • MPLS WG meeting (proceedings) (agenda)
• 48th IETF (Jul-Aug 2000, Pittsburgh)
  • MPLS WG meeting (proceedings) (agenda, minutes)
• 47th IETF (Mar 2000, Adelaide)
  • MPLS WG meeting ( proceedings) (agenda, minutes)
    • Lou Berger: "MPLS/IP Header Compression" and "MPLS/IP Header Compression over PPP"
  • ipo (IP over Opitcal) BOF
  • vompls (Voice over IP over MPLS) BOF
• 46th IETF (Nov 1999, Washington)
  • MPLS WG meeting ( proceedings) (agenda, minutes)
    • "LDP State Machines" by Eric Gray
    • NIST Switch presentation by Mark Carson
    • "InteropNet MPLS Interoperability Update" by Bill Jensen
• 45th IETF (Jul 1999, Oslo)
  • MPLS WG meeting ( proceedings) (agenda, minutes)
• 44th IETF (Mar 1999, Minneapolis)
  • MPLS WG meeting ( proceedings) (Draft: agenda, minutes)
• 43rd IETF (Dec 1998, Orlando)
  • MPLS WG meeting ( proceedings) (Draft: agenda, minutes)
• 42nd IETF (Aug 1998, Chicago)
  • MPLS WG meeting ( proceedings) (Draft: agenda, minutes)
• 41st IETF (Mar-Apr 1998, Los Angeles)
  • MPLS WG meeting ( proceedings) (Draft: agenda, minutes)
• 40th IETF (Dec 1997, Washington D.C.)
  • MPLS WG meeting (proceedings) (Draft: agenda, minutes)
• 39th IETF (Aug 1997, Munich)
  • MPLS WG meeting (proceedings) (Draft: agenda, minutes)
    • Slides of "MPLS Architecture" (pdf) by E. Rosen
    • Slides of "VC-ID, VC pool and ATM-SVC support for ATM-LSRs" by P. Doolan, H. Esaki and N. Demizu
    • Slide of "Performance Issues in VC-Merge MPLS Switches" (ppt, pdf) by I. Widjaja
• 38th IETF (Apr 1997, Memphis)
  • MPLS WG meeting (proceedings) (Draft: minutes)
    • Slides of "A Framework For Multiprotocol Label Switching" by Ross Callon
    • Slides of "ARIS Features" (text, ppt) by N. Feldman
    • Slides of "ROUTE LOOPS in MPLS" (text, ppt) by Boivie
    • Slides of "ARIS Support for LAN Media Switching" (text, ppt) by S. Blake
    • Slides of "Merging RSVP Flows" (text, ppt) by A.Viswanathan
• 37th IETF (Dec 1996, San Jose)
  • Tag Switching BOF
    • Slides of tagswitching by Y. Rekhter (Cisco)
    • Slides of RSVP/TAG by F. Baker (Cisco)
    • Slides of tagswitch and multicastby Dino Farinacci (Cisco)
    • Slides of ARIS (text, ppt) by N. Feldman (IBM)
    • Slides of Soft State Switching - Switching RSVP Flows (text, ppt) by N. Feldman (IBM)
    • Slides of Cell Switch Router ( ppt) by H. Esaki (Toshiba)
• 32nd IETF (Apr 1995)
  • COLIP (CO and CL IP Transport over ATM) BOF

Documents

Architecture

• "Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture", E. Rosen, A. Viswanathan, R. Callon, Jan 2001
  RFC3031 [PS], was < draft-ietf-mpls-arch-07.txt> (06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01), Pre: < draft-rosen-mpls-arch-01.txt> (00)
• "Issues With MPLS Architecture", E. Gray, Mar 1998
  < draft-gray-mpls-arch-issues-00.txt>
• "A Framework for Multiprotocol Label Switching", R. Callon, P. Doolan, N. Feldman, A. Fredette, G. Swallow, A. Viswanathan, Sep 1999
  < draft-ietf-mpls-framework-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Common Control and Measurement Plane Framework and Requirements", J. Jiang, D. Walker, J. Wang, Feb 2001
  < draft-walker-ccamp-req-00.txt>
• "Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Architecture", Eric Mannie, P. Ashwood-Smith, D. Awduche, A. Banerjee, D. Basak, L. Berger, G. Bernstein, S. Dharanikota, J. Drake, Y. Fan, D. Fedyk, G. Grammel, Dan Guo, K. Kompella, A. Kullberg, J.P. Lang, F. Liaw, T.D. Nadeau, L. Ong, D. Papadimitriou, D. Pendarakis, B. Rajagopalan, Y. Rekhter, D. Saha, H. Sandick, V. Sharma, G. Swallow, Z.B. Tang, J. Yates, G.R. Young, J. Yu, A. Zinin, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-architecture-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-many-gmpls-architecture-00.txt>
• "A Framework for Generalized Multi-protocol Label Switching (GMPLS)", O. Aboul-Magd, D. Awduche, C. Brownmiller, J. Eaves, R. Hoebeke, H. Ishimatsu, M. Lazer, Guangzhi Li, M. Mayer, A. Nagarajan, L. Neir, S. Patel, E. Varma, Yangguang Xu, Yong Xue, J. Yates, Jul 2001
  < draft-many-ccamp-gmpls-framework-00.txt>
• "Generalized MPLS - Signaling Functional Description", P. Ashwood-Smith, A. Banerjee, L. Berger, G. Bernstein, J. Drake, Y. Fan, K. Kompella, E. Mannie, J.P. Lang, B. Rajagopalan, Y. Rekhter, D. Saha, V. Sharma, G. Swallow, Z. Bo Tang, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-signaling-07.txt> (06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-ashwood-generalized-mpls-signaling-00.txt>
• "Modification and Reorganization to GMPLS Signaling Functional Specification", Y. Xu, Z.W. Lin, M. Visses, S. Sankaranarayanan, Mar 2001
  < draft-xu-ccamp-gmpls-sig-reorg-00.txt>
• "Intra-Domain GMPLS Control Plane Architecture for Automatically Switched Transport Network", Yangguang Xu, E. Varma, R. Nagarjan, Yong Xue, C. Brownmiller, D.O. Awduche, J. Eaves, O. Aboul-Magd, M. Mayer, H. Ishimatsu, R. Hoebeke, Guangzhi Li, Raj Jain, Mar 2001
  < draft-xu-ccamp-gmpls-arch-intra-domain-00.txt>
• "Framework for Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3)", P. Pate, X. Xiao, Tricci So, C. White, K. Kompella, A.G. Malis, T.K. Johnson, T.D. Nadeau, Sep 2001
  < draft-pate-pwe3-framework-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Requirements for Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge-to-Edge (PWE3)", X. Xiao, D. McPherson, P. Pate, C. White, K. Kompella, V. Gill, T.D. Nadeau, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-pwe3-requirements-01.txt> (00)
• "Requirements and framework for ATM network interworking over MPLS", G. Koleyni, B. St-Denis, R. Park, M. Aissaoui, J. Fisher, M. Bocci, A. Siddiqui, S. Khan, C.C. Chen, J. Rutemiller, E. Cuevas, Aug 2001
  < draft-koleyni-pwe3-atm-over-mpls-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Common Label and Label Request Specification for Automatic Switched Transport Network", M. Visses, Z.W. Lin, Yangguang Xu, S. Sankaranarayanan, Mar 2001
  < draft-lin-ccamp-ipo-common-label-request-00.txt>
• "MPLS Capability set", L. Andersson, B. Jamoussi, M. Girish, T. Worster, Oct 1999
  < draft-loa-mpls-cap-set-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS Capable attribute", A. Mondrus, Jun 1999
  < draft-mondrus-mpls-attribute-00.txt>
• "MPLS Profiles", E.C. Rosen, B. Thomas, L. Levine, C, Iturralde, G. Swallow, Mar 2000
  < draft-rosen-mpls-profiles-00.txt>
• "Stream Aggregation", A. Fredette, C. White, L. Andersson, P. Doolan, Nov 1997
  < draft-fredette-mpls-aggregation-00.txt>
• "Label Aggregation Technique for LDP", J.R. Leu, R. Rennison, S. Vogelsang, Jul 2000
  < draft-leu-mpls-ldp-label-aggregation-00.txt>
• "Aggregation of RSVP for IPv4 and IPv6 Reservations", F. Baker, C. Iturralde, F. Le Faucheur, B. Davie, Feb 2001
  < draft-ietf-issll-rsvp-aggr-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-baker-rsvp-aggregation-01.txt> (00)
• "Definitions of Textual Conventions and OBJECT-IDENTITIES for Multi-Protocol Label Switching Management", T.D. Nadeau, J. Cucchiara, C. Srinivasan, A. Viswanathan, H. Sjostrand, Jan 2002
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Jan 8 - Jan 15, 2002]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-tc-mib-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "MPLS Label Switch Router Management Information Base Using SMIv2", C. Srinivasan, A. Viswanathan, T.D. Nadeau, Jan 2001
  [IETF Last Call, Nov 2000]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-lsr-mib-07.txt> (06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Integration of Mobile IP and MPLS", Z. Ren, C. Tham, C. Foo, C. Ko, Jul 2000
  < draft-zhong-mobile-ip-mpls-01.txt> (00)
• "Extension of LDP for Mobile IP Service through the MPLS Network", Jun Kyun Choi, Tai Won Um, Yoo Kyoung Lee, Sun Hee Yang, Nov 2001
  < draft-choi-mobileip-ldpext-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "MPLampS: Electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane)", B. Rajagopalan, May 2001
  [IESG has approved the publication as a PS, Jun 2001]
  < draft-bala-mplamps-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Enhanced LSP Services", D. Papadimitriou, J. Jones, Jul 2001
  < draft-papadimitriou-enhanced-lsps-04.txt> (03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Tracing Requirements for Generic Tunnels", R. Bonica, K. Kompella, D. Meyer, Feb 2001
  < draft-bonica-tunneltrace-01.txt> (00)
• "Generic Tunnel Tracing Protocol (GTTP) Specification", R. Bonica, E. Rosen, K. Kompella, D. Meyer, R.Dube, Jul 2001
  < draft-bonica-tunproto-01.txt> (00)
• "TTL Processing in MPLS Networks", P. Agarwal, B.A. Akyol, Oct 2001
  < draft-agarwal-mpls-ttl-01.txt> (00)
• "TTL Processing expansion for 1-hop LSP", S. Matsushima, K. Nagami, H. Ishii, A. GlobalCrossing, Y. Ikejiri, Jub 2001
  < draft-satoru-mpls-1hop-lsp-01.txt> (00)
• "Path Request and Path Reply Message", C-Y Lee, S. Ganti, B. Hass, V. Naidu, G. Ash, Nov 2001
  < draft-lee-mpls-path-request-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Secure MPLS - Encryption and Authentication of MPLS payloads", T. Senevirathne, O. Paridaens, Feb 2001
  < draft-tsenevir-smpls-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS Label Stack Authentication methods and algorithms" T. Senevirathne, Jul 2001
  < draft-tsenevir-mpls-lauth-01.txt> (00)
• "Secure MPLS Domain of Interpretation for ISAKMP", T. Senevirathne, O. Paridaens, Feb 2001
  < draft-tsenevir-smpls-doi-00.txt>
• "Analysis of the Security of the MPLS Architecture", M. Behringer, Nov 2001
  < draft-behringer-mpls-security-01.txt> (00)
• "OAM Functionality for MPLS Networks", N. Harrison, P. Willis, S. Davari, B. Mack-Crane, H. Ohta, Feb 2001
  < draft-harrison-mpls-oam-00.txt>
• "Requirements for OAM Functionality in MPLS", T. Theimer, J. Klink, Oct 1999
  < draft-theimer-mpls-oam-requ-00.txt>
• "Requirements for OAM in MPLS Networks", N. Harrison, P. Willis, S. Davari, E.G. Cuevas, B. Mack-Crane, E. Franze, H. Ohta, T. So, S. Goldfless, F. Chen, D. Allan, E. Davalo, W. Alanqar, M. Brunner, C. Lan Pok, A. Punj, Dec 2001
  < draft-harrison-mpls-oam-req-01.txt> (00)
• "A Framework for MPLS User Plane OAM", D. Allan, M. Azad, E. Cuevas, N. Harrison, S. Goldfless, A. Punj, M. Brunner, Chou Lan Pok, W. Alanqar, Nov 2001
  < draft-allan-mpls-oam-frmwk-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS user-plane OAM messaging", M. Azad, D. Allan, Jul 2001
  < draft-azad-mpls-oam-messaging-00.txt>
• "Use of a reserved label value defined in RFC 3032 for MPLS OAM functions", H. Ohta, Aug 2001
  < draft-ohta-mpls-label-value-00.txt>
• "Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Management Overview", T.D. Nadeau, C. Srinivasan, A. Farrel, Oct 2001
  < draft-ietf-mpls-mgmt-overview-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-nadeau-mpls-mgmt-overview-00.txt>
• "GMPLS Extensions for Dynamic Trunking", D. Cheng, Jun 2001
  < draft-cheng-gmpls-dynamic-trunking-00.txt>
• "Distribution of 802.1Q VLAN information using Opaque LSA", T. Senevirathne, P. Billinghurst, Jul 2001
  < draft-tsenevir-8021qospf-01.txt> (00)
• "Transparent VLAN Services over MPLS", M. Lasserre, N. Slabakov, R. Nath, P. Menezes, L. Andersson, A. Smith, S. Akhtar, T. Sevenirathne, P. Lin, L. Eatherton, V. Radoaca, Ivy Hsu, Aug 2001
  < draft-lasserre-tls-mpls-00.txt>
• "A Bi-Directional LSP Tunneling Architecture for MPLS", S. M. Shahrier, Jun 2001
  < draft-shahrier-mpls-lsp-00.txt>

Routing

• "Routing Extensions in Support of Generalized MPLS", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, A. Banerjee, J. Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, D. Basak, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-routing-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-many-ccamp-gmpls-routing-00.txt>
• "MPLS Loop Prevention Mechanism", Y. Ohba, Y. Katsube, E. Rosen, P. Doolan, Feb 2001
  RFC3063 [E], was < draft-ietf-mpls-loop-prevention-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-ohba-mpls-loop-prevention-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Avoiding Loops in MPLS", C-Y Lee, L. Andersson, Y. Ohba, Oct 1999
  < draft-leecy-mpls-loop-avoidance-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS Routing Dynamics", S. Ayandeh, Y. Fan, Mar 1998
  < draft-ayandeh-mpls-dynamics-00.txt>
• "MPLS Optimized Multipath (MPLS--OMP)", C. Villamizar, Feb 1999
  < draft-villamizar-mpls-omp-01.txt> (00) (Simulation Results)
• "A probe method in MPLS loop avoidance", W. Yahong, Dec 1999
  < draft-wang-mpls-loop-probe-00.txt>
• "Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP with MPLS", Y. Rekhter, R. Aggarwal, Oct 2001
  < draft-rekhter-bgp-mpls-restart-00.txt>

LDP (Label Distribution Protocol)

• "LDP Specification", L. Andersson, P. Doolan, N. Feldman, A. Fredette, B. Thomas, Jan 2001
  RFC3036 [PS], was < draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-11.txt> (10, 09, 08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-andersson-mpls-ldp-00.txt>, PrePre: < draft-feldman-ldp-spec-00.txt>
• "LDP State Machine", C. Boscher, P. Cheval, L. Wu, E. Gray, Mar 2000
  [IESG has approved the publication as an I, Apr 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-state-04.txt> (03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-wu-mpls-ldp-state-00.txt>
• "MPLS LDP Query Message Description", P. Ashwood-Smih, A. Paraschiv, Aug 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Nov 2 - Nov 9, 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-query-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-paraschiv-mpls-lsp-query-00.txt>
• "End to end authentication for LDP", J.D. Clercq, O. Paridaens, Y. T'Joens, P.D. Schrijver, Feb 2001
  < draft-schrijvp-mpls-ldp-end-to-end-auth-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "LDP Applicability", B. Thomas, E. Gray, Jan 2001
  RFC3037 [I], was < draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-applic-02.txt> (01, 00), Pre: < draft-thomas-ldp-applic-00.txt>
• "Fault Tolerant LSP establishment in an MPLS network", V. Shandilya, Jul 2001
  < draft-shandilya-fault-tolerant-lsp-00.txt>
• "Fault Tolerance for LDP and CR-LDP", A. Farrel, P. Brittain, P. Matthews, E. Gray, May 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Mar 28 - Apr 11, 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-ft-02.txt> (01, 00), Pre: < draft-brittain-mpls-ldp-ft-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-farrel-mpls-ldp-ft-00.txt>
• "LDP/CR-LDP Session Reestablishment -- I'll Be Back", P. Matthews, Feb 2000
  < draft-matthews-mpls-ldp-ibb-00.txt>
• "Definitions of Managed Objects for the Multiprotocol Label Switching, Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)", J. Cucchiara, H. Sjostrand, J. Luciani, Aug 2001
  [IESG last call just before Thanksgiving, 2000]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-mib-08.txt> (07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-cucchiara-mpls-ldp-mib-00.txt>
• "Generic Label Distribution Protocol Specification", E. Gray, Z. Wang, G. Armitage, Nov 1997
  < draft-gray-mpls-generic-ldp-spec-00.txt>
• "Two Modes of MPLS Explicit Label Distribution Protocol", Y. Katsube, Y. Ohba, K. Nagami, Sep 1997
  < draft-katsube-mpls-two-ldp-00.txt>
• "Graceful Restart Mechanism for LDP", M. Leelanivas, Y. Rekhter, R. Aggarwal, Sep 2001
  < draft-leelanivas-ldp-restart-01.txt> (00)
• "Graceful Restart Mechanism for LDP", T. Smith, A.G. Malis, J. Shaio, Oct 2001
  < draft-smith-mpls-ldp-restart-00.txt>
• "MTU Signalling Extensions for LDP", B. Black, K. Kompella, Nov 2001
  < draft-black-ldp-mtu-extensions-02.txt> (01, 00)

CR-LDP (Constraint-Based Label Distribution Protocol)

• "Constraint-Based LSP Setup using LDP", B. Jamoussi, O. Aboul-Magd, P. Ashwood-Smith, F. Hellstrand, K. Sundell, L. Andersson, R. Callon, R. Dantu, L. Wu, P. Doolan, T. Worster, N. Feldman, A. Fredette, M. Girish, E. Gray, J. Halpern, J. Heinanen, T. Kilty, A. Malis, P. Vaananen, Nov 2001
  [IESG has approved the publication as a PS, Apr 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-cr-ldp-06.txt> (05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-jamoussi-mpls-cr-ldp-00.txt>
• "Generalized MPLS Signaling - CR-LDP Extensions", P. Ashwood-Smith, A. Banerjee, L. Berger, G. Bernstein, J. Drake, Y. Fan, D. Fedyk, K. Kompella, E. Mannie, J.P. Lang, B. Rajagopalan, Y. Rekhter, D. Saha, V. Sharma, G. Swallow, Z.B. Tang, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-cr-ldp-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Applicability Statement for CR-LDP", J. Ash, M. Girish, E. Gray, B. Jamoussi, G. Wright, Jul 2000
  [IESG has approved the publication as an I, Apr 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-crldp-applic-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-jamoussi-mpls-crldp-applic-00.txt>
• "A Framework for Service Definition and Interworking Using CR-LDP", O. Aboul-Magd, B. Jamoussi, Oct 1999
  < draft-aboulmagd-srvc-def-crldp-00.txt>
• "LSP Modification Using CR-LDP", J. Ash, Y. Lee, P. Ashwood-Smith, B. Jamoussi, D. Fedyk, D. Skaleki, L. Li, Mar 2001
  [IESG has approved the publication as a PS, Apr 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-crlsp-modify-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-ash-crlsp-modify-00.txt>
• "Soft Permanent LSPs for CR-LDP", J. Heinanen, Feb 2000
  < draft-heinanen-mpls-splsp-00.txt>
• "Improving Topology Data Base Accuracy with LSP Feedback via CR-LDP", P. Ashwood-Smith, B. Jamoussi, D. Fedyk, D. Skalecki, Nov 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Jan 4 - 18, 2002]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-te-feed-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-ashw-mpls-te-feed-01.txt> (00)
• "Crankback Routing Extensions for MPLS Signaling", A. Iwata, N. Fujita, G.R. Ash, A. Farrel, S. Marshall-Unitt, Nov 2001
  < draft-iwata-mpls-crankback-02.txt> (01, 00), Pre: < draft-fujita-mpls-crldp-crankback-01.txt> (00)
• "CR-LDP Extensions for Interworking with RSVP-TE", G.Wright, S. Ballarte, T. Pearson, Mar 2000
  < draft-wright-mpls-crldp-rsvpte-iw-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-wright-mpls-er-interwork-00.txt>
• "Signalling Unnumbered Links in CR-LDP", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, A. Kullberg, Dec 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Jan 4 - 18, 2002]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-crldp-unnum-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-kompella-mpls-crldp-unnum-00.txt>

ATM

• "MPLS using LDP and ATM VC Switching", B. Davie, J. Lawrence, K. McCloghrie, Y. Rekhter, E. Rosen, G. Swallow, P. Doolan, Jan 2001
  RFC3035 [PS], was < draft-ietf-mpls-atm-04.txt> (03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-davie-mpls-atm-01.txt> (00), PrePre: < draft-davie-tag-switching-atm-01.txt> (00)
• "Scalability Issues in Label Switching over ATM", Z. Wang, G. Armitage, Jul 1997
  < draft-wang-mpls-scaling-atm-00.txt>
• "MPLS using ATM VP Switching", N. Feldman, B. Jamoussi, S. Komandur, A. Viswanathan, Feb 1999
  < draft-feldman-mpls-atmvp-00.txt>
• "MPLS Ships in the Night Operation with ATM", B. Jamoussi, N. Feldman, L. Andersson, Aug 1998
  < draft-jamoussi-mpls-sin-00.txt>
• "VCID Notification over ATM link", K. Nagami, N. Demizu, H. Esaki, Y. Katsube, P. Doolan, Jan 2001
  RFC3038 [PS], was < draft-ietf-mpls-vcid-atm-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-nagami-mpls-vcid-atm-00.txt>,
  Pre(VCID): < draft-demizu-mpls-vcid-01.txt> (00), Pre(SVC): < draft-demizu-mpls-atm-svc-00.txt>
• "The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol", M. Suzuki, Jan 2001
  RFC3033 [PS], was < draft-ietf-mpls-git-uus-04.txt> (03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-suzuki-git-uus-assignment-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "VC Pool", N. Demizu, K. Nagami, P. Doolan, H. Esaki, Oct 1997
  < draft-demizu-mpls-vcpool-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-demizu-vcpool-00.txt">>
• "Double Identification Label Swapping (DILS) for Merged ATM Connections", G. Goren, I. Iliadis, P. Droz, Jul 1997
  < draft-droz-dils-arch-00.txt>
• "IP Address Resolution and ATM Signaling for MPLS over ATM SVC services", H. Esaki, Y. Katsube, K. Nagami, P. Doolan, Y. Rekhter, Jun 1997
  < draft-katsube-mpls-over-svc-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-esaki-mpls-over-svc-00.txt>
• "Performance Issues in VC-Merge Capable MPLS Switches", I. Widjaja, A. Elwalid, Sep 1999
  RFC2682 [I], was < draft-widjaja-mpls-vc-merge-01.txt> (00)

Optical Networks

• "G.709 Optical Transport Networks GMPLS Control Framework", A. Bellato, S. Dharanikota, M. Fontana, G. Gasparini, G. Grammel, Dan Guo, J. Heiles, J. Jones, Zhi-Wei Lin, E. Mannie, D. Papadimitriou, S. Sankaranarayanan, M. Vissers, Yong Xue, Nov 2001
  < draft-bellato-ccamp-g709-framework-01.txt> (00)
• "Enhancements to GMPLS Signaling for Optical Technologies", B. Mack-Crane, V. Sharma, G. Bernstein, E. Mannie, B. Rajagopalan, D. Saha, J. Connell, S. Chatterjee, M. Raftelis, Nov 2000
  < draft-mack-crane-gmpls-signaling-enhancements-00.txt>
• "GMPLS Extensions for SONET and SDH Control", E. Mannie, S. Ansorge, P. Ashwood-Smith, A. Banerjee, L. Berger, G. Bernstein, A. Chiu, J. Drake, Y. Fan, M. Fontana, G. Grammel, J. Heiles, S. Katukam, K. Kompella, J.P. Lang, F. Liaw, Zhi-Wei Lin, B. Mack-Crane, D. Papadimitriou, D. Pendarakis, M. Raftelis, B. Rajagopalan, Y. Rekhter, D. Saha, V. Sharma, G. Swallow, Z. Bo Tang, E. Varma, M. Vissers, Yangguang Xu, Oct 2001
  < draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-sonet-sdh-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "GMPLS Extensions to Control Non-Standard SONET and SDH Features", E. Mannie, S. Ansorge, P. Ashwood-Smith, A. Banerjee, L. Berger, G. Bernstein, A. Chiu, J. Drake, Yanhe Fan, M. Fontana, G. Grammel, J. Heiles, S. Katukam, K. Kompella, J.P. Lang, F. Liaw, Zhi-Wei Lin, B. Mack-Crane, D. Papadimitriou, D. Pendarakis, M. Raftelis, B. Rajagopalan, Y. Rekhter, D. Saha, V. Sharma, G. Swallow, Z. Bo Tang, E. Varma, M. Vissers, Yangguang Xu, Oct 2001
  < draft-ietf-ccamp-gmpls-sonet-sdh-extensions-00.txt>
• "GMPLS Signaling Extension to Control the Conversion between Contiguous and Virtual Concatenation for SONET and SDH", E. Mannie, D. Papadimitriou, Jun 2001
  < draft-mannie-ccamp-gmpls-concatenation-conversion-00.txt>
• "GMPLS Signalling Extensions for G.709 Optical Transport Networks", M. Fontana, G. Gasparini, A. Bellato, G. Grammel, J. Jones, D. Papadimitriou, E. Mannie, Feb 2001
  < draft-fontana-gmpls-control-g709-00.txt>
• "GMPLS Signalling Extensions for G.709 Optical Transport Networks Control", A. Bellato, S. Dharanikota, M. Fontana, James Fu, G. Gasparini, N. Ghani, G. Grammel, Dan Guo, J. Heiles, J. Jones, Zhi-Wei Lin, E. Mannie, D. Papadimitriou, S. Sankaranarayanan, M. Vissers, Yangguang Xu, Yong Xue, Nov 2001
  < draft-fontana-ccamp-gmpls-g709-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Some Comments on GMPLS and Optical Technologies", G. Bernstein, V. Sharma, Nov 2000
  < draft-bernstein-gmpls-optical-00.txt>
• "Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching: Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control With Optical Crossconnects", D. O. Awduche, Y. Rekhter, J. Drake, R. Coltun, Apr 2001
  < draft-awduche-mpls-te-optical-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "IP over Optical Networks: A Framework", B. Rajagopalan, J. Luciani, D. Awduche, B. Cain, B, Jamoussi, D. Saha, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ipo-framework-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-many-ip-optical-framework-03.txt> (02, 01), Pre: < draft-ip-optical-framework-00.txt>
• "IP over Optical Networks: A Summary of Issues", S. Seetharaman, A. Durresi, R. Jagannathan, R. Jain, N. Chandhok, K. Vinodkrishnan, Apr 2001
  < draft-osu-ipo-mpls-issues-02.txt> (01, 00) (01)
• "Multi-protocol Lambda Switching: Issues in Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control With Optical Crossconnects", D. Basak, D.O. Awduche, J. Drake, Y. Rekhter, Feb 2000
  < draft-basak-mpls-oxc-issues-01.txt> (00)
• "Optical Multi-Granularity Architectural Framework", E. Dotaro, D. Papadimitriou, L. Ciavaglia, M. Vigoureux, R. Douville, L. Noirie, Nov 2001
  < draft-dotaro-ipo-multi-granularity-01.txt> (00)
• "Control Mechanisms for Traffic Engineering in Optical Networks", J. Ho Hahm, K. Lee, M. Carson, Jul 2000
  < draft-hahm-te-optical-00.txt>
• "Closed-Loop Automatic Link Provisioning", J. Ellson, L. Cheng, A. Jukan, A. Elwalid, L. Qian, Feb 2001
  < draft-ellson-ipo-te-link-provisioning-00.txt>
• "Control of Lightpaths in an Optical Network", S. Chaudhuri, G. Hjalmtysson, J. Yates, Feb 2000
  < draft-chaudhuri-ip-olxc-control-00.txt>
• "MPLS control plane for Switched Optical Networks", M. Krishnaswamy, G. Newsome, J. Gajewski, A. Rodriguez-Moral, S. Shew, M. Mayer, Feb 2000
  < draft-krishnaswamy-mpls-son-00.txt>
• "Features and Requirements for The Optical Layer Control Plane" A. Chiu, J. Strand, R. Tkach, J. Luciani, Feb 2001
  < draft-chiu-strand-unique-olcp-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Considerations on the development of an Optical Control Plane", D. Freeland, N. Harrison, S. Inglima, K. James, A. McGuire, S. Mirza, S. Ritchie, M. Robinson, A. Salman, P. Willis, Nov 2000
  < draft-freeland-octrl-cons-00.txt>
• "Automatic Neighbor Discovery for Optical Network", H. Koay, Y. Xu, Nov 2000
  < draft-koay-mpls-and-optical-00.txt>
• "Carrier Needs Regarding Survivability and Maintenance for Switched Optical Networks", H. Ishimatsu, Y. Hayata, S. Yoneda, R. Bhandari, G. Newsome, E. Varma, Nov 2000
  < draft-hayata-ipo-carrier-needs-00.txt>
• "Framework for MPLS-based Control of Optical SDH/SONET Networks", G. Bernstein, E. Mannie, V. Sharma, Jul 2001
  < draft-bms-optical-sdhsonet-mpls-control-frmwrk-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS for SDH control", E. Mannie, Mar 2000
  < draft-mannie-mpls-sdh-control-00.txt>
• "SONET/SDH Circuit Emulation Service Over MPLS (CEM)", A. Malis, K. Hsu, J. Brayley, S. Vogelsang, J. Shirron, L. Martini, T. Johnson, M. Drost, E. Hallman, Jul 2001
  < draft-malis-sonet-ces-mpls-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "SONET/SDH Circuit Emulation Service Over MPLS (CEM) Management Information Base Using SMIv2", D. Danenberg, S.C. Park, T.D. Nadeau, D. Zelig, S. Mantin, A.G. Malis, Nov 2001
  < draft-danenberg-pw-cem-mib-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-danenberg-sonet-ces-mpls-mib-00.txt>
• "Handling BLSR with MPLS Traffic Engineering", S. Katukam, Jul 2000
  < draft-katukam-blsr-te-00.txt>
• "Automatic Switched Optical Network (ASON) Architecture and Its Related Protocols", O. Aboul-Magd, M. Mayer, D. Benjamin, B. Jamoussi, L. Prattico, S. Shew, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ipo-ason-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-aboulmagd-ipo-ason-00.txt>
• "Requirements on the ASON UNI", M. Lazer, C. Brownmiller, Z.W. Lin, V. Poudyal, P. Walch, M. Jones, O. Duroyon, J.W. Kuo, Y. Cao, H. Ishimatsu, Y. Xue, Nov 2000
  < draft-lin-mpls-ipo-ason-uni-00.txt>
• "Need for Aligning Signaling Parameters of Various Signaling Protocols", Z.W. Lin, H. Ishimatsu, O. Duroyon, J. Jones, C. Brownmiller, Nov 2000
  < draft-lin-mpls-sigalign-00.txt>
• "UNI and NNI Operations and Generic Parameters", Z.W. Lin, H. Ishimatsu, O. Duroyon, J. Jones, C. Brownmiller, November 2000
  < draft-lin-mpls-uni-nni-oper-00.txt>
• "Generalized MPLS Control Plane Architecture for Automatic Switched Transport Network", Y. Xu, E. Varma, R. Nagarjan, D.O. Awduche, Y. Xue, C. Brownmiller, D. Papadimitriou, R. Hoebeke, J. Eaves, O. Aboul-Magd, M. Mayer, H. Ishimatsu, R. Jain, Nov 2000
  < draft-xu-mpls-ipo-gmpls-arch-00.txt>
• "Impairments And Other Constraints On Optical Layer Routing", A. Chiu, R. Tkach, J. Luciani, A. Banerjee, J. Drake, D. Blumenthal, A. Fredette, N. Froberg, J. Strand, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ipo-impairments-01.txt> (00)
• "Non-linear Routing Impairments in Wavelength Switched Optical Networks", D. Papadimitriou, J.-P. Faure, O. Audouin, R. Appelman, Nov 2001
  < draft-papadimitriou-ipo-non-linear-routing-impairm-01.txt> (00)
• "OSPF Extensions in Support of MPL(ambda)S", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, A. Banerjee, J. Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, Jul 2000
  < draft-kompella-ospf-ompls-extensions-00.txt>
• "OSPF Extensions in Support of Generalized MPLS", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, A. Banerjee, J. Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ccamp-ospf-gmpls-extensions-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-kompella-ospf-gmpls-extensions-01.txt> (00)
• "IS-IS Extensions in Support of Generalized MPLS", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, A. Banerjee, J. Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-isis-gmpls-extensions-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-kompella-isis-ompls-extensions-00.txt>
• "Extensions to IS-IS/OSPF and RSVP in support of MPL(ambda)S", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, D.O. Awduche, A. Hannan, G. Hjalmtysson, J. Lawrence, S. Okamoto, D. Basak, G. Bernstein, J. Drake, N. Margalit, E. Stern, Feb 2000
  < draft-kompella-mpls-optical-00.txt>
• "Traffic Engineering Routing Extensions to OSPF and ISIS for GMPLS Control of G.709 Optical Transport Networks", A. Bellato, M. Fontana, G. Gasparini, G. Grammel, J. Jones, D. Papadimitriou, Nov 2001
  < draft-gasparini-ccamp-gmpls-g709-ospf-isis-01.txt> (00)
• "Extensions to OSPF/IS-IS for Optical Routing", G. Wang, D. Fedyk, V. Sharma, K. Owens, G.R. Ash, M. Krishnaswamy, Y. Cao, M.K. Girish, H.M. Ruck, S. Bernstein, P. Nguyen, S. Ahluwalia, L. Wang, A. Doria, H. Hummel, Mar 2000
  < draft-wang-ospf-isis-lambda-te-routing-00.txt>
• "Network Engineering Extensions (NEXT) for OSPFv3", S. Giacalone, Mar 2001
  < draft-giacalone-te-optical-next-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Flooding optimizations in link-state routing protocols", A. Zinin, M. Shand, Oct 2000
  < draft-zinin-flood-opt-01.txt> (00)
• "Hybrid Mesh-Ring Optical Networks and Their Routing Information Distribution Using Opaque LSA", D. Guo, J. Fu, L. Zhang, N. Ghani, L. Zhang, Feb 2001
  < draft-guo-optical-mesh-ring-01.txt> (00)
• "Optical Rings and Hybrid Mesh-Ring Optical Networks", D. Papadimitriou, Nov 2001
  < draft-papadimitriou-optical-rings-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Extensions to CR-LDP and RSVP-TE for Optical Path Set-up", Y. Fan, P. Ashwood-Smith, V. Sharma, K. Owens, G.R. Ash, M. Krishnaswamy, Y. Cao, M.K. Girish, H.M. Ruck, S. Bernstein, P. Nguyen, S. Ahluwalia, H. Sjostrand, K. Eriksson, L. Wang, A. Doria, H. Hummel, Mar 2000
  < draft-fan-mpls-lambda-signaling-00.txt>
• "Extensions to CR-LDP for Path Establishment in Optical Networks", Z.B. Tang, D. Saha, B. Rajagopalan, Mar 2000
  < draft-tang-crldp-optical-00.txt>
• "RSVP Extensions in Support of OIF Optical UNI Signaling", John. Yu, F. Liaw, E. Gray, J. Drake, J. Lang, A. Banerjee, G. Bernstein, Y. Rekhter, G. Swallow, K. Kompella, R. Rennison, Y. Xu, D. Pendarakis, N. Komaee, R. Jain, Z. Zhang, Nov 2000
  < draft-yu-mpls-rsvp-oif-uni-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-gray-mpls-rsvp-oif-uni-ext-00.txt>
• "RSVP Extensions for Signaling Optical Paths", D. Saha, B. Rajagopalan, B. Tang, Mar 2000
  < draft-saha-rsvp-optical-signaling-00.txt>
• "Extensions to RSVP for optical networking", J.P. Lang, K. Mitra, J. Drake, Mar 2000
  < draft-lang-mpls-rsvp-oxc-00.txt>
• "Extensions to RSVP-TE for Bi-directional Optical Path Setup", D. Guo, L. Zhang, J. Fu, R. Cheung, Jul 2000
  < draft-sorrento-rsvp-bi-osp-00.txt>
• "Lightpath Route Extensions to RSVP-TE for optical channel connection setup", M. Krishnaswamy, L. Zhang, A. Rodriguez-Moral, Feb 2001
  < draft-krishnaswamy-optical-rsvp-extn-00.txt>
• "Routing Information Exchange in Optical Networks", D. Pendarakis, B. Rajagopalan, D. Saha, Nov 2000
  < draft-prs-optical-routing-01.txt> [ps] (00 [ps])
• "Signaling Framework for Automated Provisioning and Restoration of Paths in Optical Mesh Networks", B. Rajagopalan, D. Saha, B. Tang, K. Bala, Mar 2000
  < draft-rstb-optical-signaling-framework-00.txt>
• "Signaling for Fast Restoration in Optical Mesh Networks", B. Rajagopalan, D. Saha, G. Bernstein, V. Sharma, Aug 2001
  < draft-bala-restoration-signaling-01.txt> (00)
• "Bandwidth Provisioning and Restoration Mechanisms in Optical Networks", J.H. Hahm, K. Lee, Dec 2000
  < draft-hahm-optical-restoration-01.txt> (00)
• "High Level Requirements for Optical Shared Mesh Restoration", R. Bhandari, S. Sankaranarayanan, E. Varma, Nov 2000
  < draft-bhandari-optical-restoration-00.txt>
• "Restoration Mechanisms and Signaling in Optical Networks", Jin Ho Hahm, Kwang-il Lee, D. Griffith, R. Hartani, D. Papadimitriou, F. Poppe, Dan Guo, J. Zhan, N. Ravindran, P. Siva, R. Cooper, R. Cheung, James Fu, S. Dharanikota, Nov 2001
  < draft-many-optical-restoration-01.txt> (00)
• "Inference of Shared Risk Link Groups", D. Papadimitriou, F. Poppe, J. Jones, S. Venkatachalam, S. Dharanikota, R. Jain, R. Hartani, D. Griffith, Yong Xue, Nov 2001
  < draft-many-inference-srlg-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Inter-domain routing with Shared Risk Groups", S. Dharanikota, R. Jain, D. Papadimitriou, R. Hartani, G. Bernstein, V. Sharma, C.Brownmiller, Y.Xue, Dec 2001
  < draft-many-ccamp-srg-01.txt> (00)
• "Optical Network-to-Network Interface Framework and Signaling Requirements", D. Papadimitriou, M. Fontana, G. Grammel, Yanguang Xu, Zhi-Wei Lin, S. Sankaranarayanan, R. Jain, Yang Cao, Yong Xue, Nov 2000
  < draft-papadimitriou-onni-frame-01.txt>
• "Lightpath attributes and related service definitions", L. McAdams, J. Yates, Mar 2000
  < draft-mcadams-lightpath-attributes-00.txt>
• "Performance Monitoring in Photonic Networks in support of MPL(ambda)S", L. Ceuppens, D. Blumenthal, J. Drake, J. Chrostowski, W.L. Edwards, Mar 2000
  < draft-ceuppens-mpls-optical-00.txt>
• "Link Management Protocol (LMP)", J.P. Lang, K. Mitra, J. Drake, K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, L. Berger, D. Saha, D. Basak, H. Sandick, A. Zinin, B. Rajagopalan, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ccamp-lmp-02.txt> (01, 00), Pre: < draft-ietf-mpls-lmp-02.txt> (01, 00), PrePre: < draft-lang-mpls-lmp-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Link Management Protocol (LMP) for WDM Transmission Systems", A. Fredette, J. Lang, O. Aboul-Magd, S. Brorson, S. Dharanikota, J. Drake, D. Drysdale, W. L. Edwards, A. Farrel, R. Goyal, H. Ishimatsu, M. Jaeger, R. Krishnan, R. Mannam, E. Mannie, D. Papadimitriou, V. Sahay, J. Shantigram, E. Snyder, G. Swallow, G. Tumuluri, Y. Xue, L. Yong, J. Yu, Nov 2001
  < draft-fredette-lmp-wdm-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "LMP Extensions for Sonet and SDH", S. Ansorge, D. Papadimitriou, G. Grammel, J. Jones, J. Lang, Nov 2001
  < draft-ansorge-ccamp-lmp-sonet-sdh-00.txt>
• "Link Management Protocol Management Information Base Using SMIv2", M. Dubuc, S. Dharanikota, T.D. Nadeau, J.P. Lang, E. McGinnis, Feb 2001
  < draft-ietf-ccamp-lmp-mib-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-dubuc-lmp-mib-01.txt> (00)
• "Link Bundling Considerations in Optical Networks", B. Rajagopalan, D. Saha, Oct 2000
  < draft-rs-optical-bundling-01.txt> (00)
• "Triggering and advertising lightpaths in an IP over optical network", O. Duroyon, R. Hoebeke, H.D. Neve, D. Papadimitriou, Nov 2000
  < draft-duroyon-te-ip-optical-01.txt> (00)
• "Security Requirements for Lightpath Services", H. Ishimatsu, S. Tanaka, Z.W. Lin, Yangguang Xu, J. Heiles, Yang Cao, Mar 2001
  < draft-ishimatsu-ipo-lightpath-scrty-00.txt>
• "Signaling Requirements at the Optical UNI", O. S. Aboul-Magd, O. Aparicio, R. Barry, G. Bernstien, R. Jain, L. Jia, R. Dulepet, M. Lazer, J. Yates, D. Pendarakis, B. Rajagopalan, R. Rennison, Y. Xu, Y. Xue, J. Yu, Z. Zhang, Nov 2000
  < draft-bala-mpls-optical-uni-signaling-01.txt> (00)
• "LDP Extensions for Optical User Network Interface (O-UNI) Signaling", O. Aboul-Magd, R. Jain, L. Jia, B. Rajagopalan, R. Rennison, Y. Xu, Z. Zhang, Oct 2000
  < draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-optical-uni-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-aboulmagd-mpls-ldp-optical-uni-00.txt>
• "A Hybrid Data Transport Protocol for Optical Networks", P.K. Jha, Nov 2000
  < draft-jha-optical-hdt-00.txt>
• "Definitions of Managed Objects for the Optical Interface Type", M. Stewart, A. Huynh, K. Lam, Nov 2000
  < draft-stewart-atommib-opticalmib-00.txt>
• "Carrier Optical Services Framework and Associated UNI Requirements", Yong Xue, D. Awduche, M. Lazer, J. Strand, J. Yates, L. McAdams, O. Aparicio, R. Dottin, R. Aggarwal, Nov 2000
  < draft-many-carrier-framework-uni-00.txt>
• "Carrier Optical Services Requirements", Yong Xue, M. Lazer, J. Strand, J. Yates, D. Wang, A. Nagarajan, L. Neir, W. Alanqar, T. Ferris, H. Ishimatsu, S. Wright, O. Aparicio, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ipo-carrier-requirements-00.txt>
• "TDM over IP", M. Anavi, J. Stein, E. Schwartz, H. Schwarzbauer, M. Riegel, Feb 2001
  < draft-anavi-tdmoip-01.txt> (00)
• "Impairment Constraints for Routing in All-Optical Networks", A. Banerjee, A. Chiu, J. Drake, D. Blumenthal, A. Fredette, Mar 2001
  < draft-banerjee-routing-impairments-00.txt>
• "Optical Inter Domain Routing Requirements", G. Bernstein, L. Ong, B. Rajagopalan, A. Chiu, F. Hujber, J. Strand, V. Sharma, S. Dharanikota, July 2001
  < draft-bernstein-optical-bgp-01.txt> (00)
• "Optical Inter Domain Routing Considerations", G. Bernstein, L. Ong, B. Rajagopalan, D. Pendarakis, A. Chiu, F. Hujber, J. Strand, V. Sharma, S. Dharanikota, D. Cheng, R. Izmailov, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ipo-optical-inter-domain-00.txt>
• "A BGP/GMPLS Solution for Inter-Domain Optical Networking", Yangguang Xu, Anindya Basu, Yong Xue, Jun 2001
  < draft-xu-bgp-gmpls-01.txt> (00)
• "Network Transport Interface Protocol (NTIP) for Photonic Cross Connects (PXC)", V. Sahay, R. Ramaswami, O. Aboul-Magd, B. Jamoussi, R. Jain, S. Dharanikota, R. Hartani, Feb 2001
  < draft-sahay-ccamp-ntip-00.txt>
• "Optical Channel Concatenation -- Need and Requirements", R. Damle, Y. Lee, E. Brendel, R. Hartani, V. Sharma, Jun 2001
  < draft-damle-optical-channel-concatenation-00.txt>
• "Optical Link Interface Requirements", A. Fredette, O. Aboul-Magd, C. Brownmiller, S. Dharanikota, N. Doraswamy, J. Drake, G. Ellinas, R. Goyal, R. Hartani, B. Jamoussi, J. Labourdette, J. Lang, E. Mannie, B. Narayanan, D. Papadimitriou, B. Rajagopalan, R. Ramaswami, V. Sahay, E. Snyder, Y Xue, June 2001
  < draft-many-oli-reqts-00.txt>
• "Optical Multicast in Wavelength Switched Networks - Architectural Framework -", D. Papadimitriou, D. Ooms, J. Jones, E. Mannie, R. Appelman, Nov 2001
  < draft-poj-optical-multicast-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Optical Automatic Protection Switching Protocol (O-APS)", Dan Guo, Jibin Zhan, Wenjing Chu, Hui Zhang, D. Papadimitriou, S. Ansorge, Nasir Ghani, James Fu, Zhensheng Zhang, D. Pendarakis, S. Dharanikota, Nov 2001
  < draft-guo-optical-aps-01.txt> (00)
• "ConSION: Control & Signaling Intelligence Overlay Networks for Optical Networking", J.T. Amenyo, Aug 2001
  < draft-amenyo-consion-sigint-optnet-00.txt>

Other Protocols

• "Use of Label Switching on Frame Relay Networks Specification", A. Conta, P. Doolan, A. Malis, Jan 2001
  RFC3034 [PS], was < draft-ietf-mpls-fr-06.txt> (05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-conta-mpls-fr-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS Label Stack Encoding", E. Rosen, Y. Rekhter, D. Tappen, G. Fedorkow, D. Farinacci, T. Li, A. Conta, Jan 2001
  RFC3032 [PS], was < draft-ietf-mpls-label-encaps-08.txt> (07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-rosen-tag-stack-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "MPLS Label Stack Encapsulation in IP", P. Doolan, Y.Katsube, A. Malis, R. Wilder, T. Worster, Feb 2001
  < draft-worster-mpls-in-ip-04.txt> (03, 02, 01, 00)
• "MPLS Label Stack Encapsulation in GRE", Y. Rekhter, D. Tappan, E. Rosen, Sep 2001
  < draft-rekhter-mpls-over-gre-03.txt> (01, 00)
• "IPNGLS - IP Next Generation Label Switching", V. Roesler, L. Balbinot, M. Andrade, Sep 2001
  < draft-roesler-ipngwg-ipngls-00.txt>
• "MPLS/IP Header Compression", L. Berger, J. Jeffords, Jul 2000
  < draft-ietf-mpls-hdr-comp-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-berger-mpls-hdr-comp-00.txt>
• "MPLS/IP Header Compression over PPP", L. Berger, J. Jeffords, Jul 2000
  < draft-ietf-mpls-hdr-comp-over-ppp-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-berger-mpls-hdr-comp-over-ppp-00.txt>
• "Simple Header Compression", G. Swallow, L. Berger, Mar 2000
  < draft-swallow-mpls-simple-hdr-compress-00.txt>
• "ICMP Extensions for MultiProtocol Label Switching", R. Bonica, D. Tappan, D. Gan, Nov 2000
  < draft-bonica-icmp-mpls-02.txt>, Pre: < draft-ietf-mpls-icmp-02.txt> (01, 00), Pre: < draft-bonica-icmp-mpls-01.txt> (00)
• "A Proposal to Incorporate ECN in MPLS", K. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, B. Davie, Jun 1999
  < draft-ietf-mpls-ecn-00.txt>
• "Using ECN to Signal Congestion Within an MPLS Domain", M. Shayman, R. Jaeger, Nov 2000
  < draft-shayman-mpls-ecn-00.txt>
• "Carrying Label Information in BGP-4", Y. Rekhter, Eric Rosen, Jan 2001
  RFC3107 [PS], was < draft-ietf-mpls-bgp4-mpls-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-rekhter-bgp4-mpls-00.txt>
• "Transport of Layer 2 Frames Over MPLS", L. Martini, N. El-Aawar, S. Vogelsang, J. Shirron, T. Smith, D. Tappan, E.C. Rosen, A. Hamilton, J. Jayakumar, V. Radoaca, D.S. Vlachos, A.G. Malis, V. Sirkay, C. Liljenstolpe, D. Cooper, G. Heron, K. Kompella, Nov 2001
  < draft-martini-l2circuit-trans-mpls-08.txt> (07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Layer 2 Frames Over MPLS", L. Martini, N. El-Aawar, S. Vogelsang, J. Shirron, T. Smith, D. Tappan, E.C. Rosen, A. Hamilton, J. Jayakumar, V. Radoaca, D.S. Vlachos, A.G. Malis, V. Sirkay, C. Liljenstolpe, D. Cooper, G. Heron, K. Kompella, Nov 2001
  < draft-martini-l2circuit-encap-mpls-04.txt> (03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Multi-service over MPLS", B. St-Denis, D. Fedyk, A. Bhatnagar, A. Siddiqui, R. Hartani, T. So, Nov 2000
  < draft-stdenis-ms-over-mpls-00.txt>
• "Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' Multi-Protocol Label Switching Extension", P.R. Calhoun, K. Peirce, Mar 2000
  < draft-ietf-l2tpext-mpls-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-mpls-02.txt> (01, 00)

• "Labels for MPLS over LAN Media", D. Bussiere, H. Esaki, A. Ghanwani, S. Matsuzawa, J. W. Pace, V. Srinivasan, Aug 1997
  < draft-srinivasan-mpls-lans-label-00.txt>
• "Comparison of MPLS LAN Encapsulation Proposals", E. Rosen, A. Fredette, T. Li, K. McCloghrie, M. Mehhar, Nov 1997
  < draft-rosen-mpls-lan-encaps-compar-00.txt>
• "MPLS Label Stack Encoding on LAN Media", E. Rosen, Y. Rekhter, D. Tappan, D. Farinacci, G. Fedorkow, T. Li, A. Conta, Nov 1997
  < draft-rosen-mpls-lan-encaps-00.txt>
• "Use of CR-LDP or RSVP-TE to Extend 802.1Q Virtual LANs across MPLS Networks", T. Senevirathne, P. Billinghurst, Oct 2000
  < draft-tsenevir-8021qmpls-01.txt>

Multicast

• "Framework for IP Multicast in MPLS", D. Ooms, B. Sales, W. Livens, A. Acharya, F. Griffoul, F. Ansari, Nov 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Jan 5 - Jan 19, 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-multicast-06.txt> (05, 04, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-ooms-mpls-multicast-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "IP Multicast Support in MPLS Networks", A. Acharya, F. Griffoul, F. Ansari, Feb 1999
  < draft-acharya-ipsofacto-mpls-mcast-00.txt>
• "Partitioning Label Space among Multicast Routers on a Common Subnet", D. Farinacci, Y. Rekhter, Sep 1999
  < draft-farinacci-multicast-label-part-01.txt> (00)
• "Using PIM to Distribute MPLS Labels for Multicast Routes", D. Farinacci, Y. Rekhter, E. Rosen, T. Qian, Nov 2000
  < draft-farinacci-mpls-multicast-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "MPLS for PIM-SM", D. Ooms, W. Livens, B. Sales, Nov 1998
  < draft-ooms-mpls-pimsm-00.txt>
• "Explicit Tree Routing", H. Hummel, S. Loke, Jun 1999
  < draft-hummel-mpls-explicit-tree-01.txt> (00)
• "Source Only Multicast", H. Hummel, Jun 2000
  < draft-hummel-pim-so-00.txt>
• "Source Specific Multicast", H. Hummel, Jun 2000
  < draft-hummel-ssm-00.txt>
• "Inter-Domain Multicast Forwarding (IDMF)", M. Jibiki, A. Iwata, Mar 2000
  < draft-jibiki-iwata-mboned-idmf-00.txt>
• "MSDP Specific Forwarding Extension for Inter-Domain Multicast Forwarding", M. Jibiki, A. Iwata, Nov 2000
  < draft-jibiki-iwata-msdp-idmf-01.txt>
• "An Effective Solution for Multicast Scalability: The MPLS Multicast Tree (MMT)", A. Boudani, B. Cousin, Nov 2001
  < draft-boudani-mpls-multicast-tree-00.txt>
• "MPLS multicast over Ethernet", M. Christensen, Sep 2001
  < draft-jagd-mpls-mcast-eth-00.txt>

Traffic Engineering

• "A Framework for Internet Traffic Measurement", Wai Sum Lai, B. Christian, R.W. Tibbs, S.V. Berghe, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-tewg-measure-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-wlai-tewg-measure-01.txt> (00)
• "A Framework for Internet Traffic Engineering", D.O. Awduche, A. Chiu, A. Elwalid, I. Widjaja, X. Xiao, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-tewg-framework-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Overview and Principles of Internet Traffic Engineering", D.O. Awduche, A. Chiu, A. Elwalid, I. Widjaja, X. Xiao, Nov 2001
  [IESG has approved the publication as a PS, Dec 2001]
  < draft-ietf-tewg-principles-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Some Issues for Desiging a Measurement Architecture for Traffic Engineered IP Networks", S.V. Berghe, P. Vanheuven, P. Demeester, H. Asgari, Feb 2001
  < draft-svdberg-temon-00.txt>
• "Concept of IP Traffic Engineering", K. Takashima, K. Nakamichi, T. Soumiya, Oct 1999
  < draft-takashima-te-concept-00.txt>
• "Orchestrally conducted Traffic (OCT)", H. Hummel, Apr 2000
  < draft-hummel-te-oct-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Framework for Traffic Management in MPLS Networks", P. Vaananen, R. Ravikanth, Mar 1998
  < draft-vaananen-mpls-tm-framework-00.txt [ps]>
• "Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS", D. Awduche, J. Malcolm, J. Agogbua, M. O'Dell, J. McManus, Sep 1999
  RFC2702 [I], was < draft-ietf-mpls-traffic-eng-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-awduche-mpls-traffic-eng-00.txt>
• "Quality of Service using Traffic Engineering over MPLS: An Analysis", P. Bhaniramka, W. Sun, R. Jain, Mar 1999
  < draft-bhani-mpls-te-anal-00.txt>
• "Applicability Statement for Traffic Engineering with MPLS", J. Boyle, V. Gill, A. Hannan, D. Cooper, D. Awduche, B. Christian, W.S. Lai, Oct 2001
  < draft-ietf-tewg-te-applicability-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-many-tewg-te-applicability-00.txt>
• "A Framework for Internet Network Engineering", L. Cheng, J. Ellson, Yangguang Xu, Jul 2001
  < draft-cheng-network-engineering-framework-00.txt>
• "Traffic Engineering of Load Distribution", S.Wright, R.Jaeger, F.Reichmeyer, Jul 2000
  < draft-wright-load-distribution-00.txt>
• "Metrics and Resource Classes for Traffic Engineering", D. Fedyk, A. Ghanwani, Oct 1999
  < draft-fedyk-mpls-te-metrics-00.txt>
• "Multiple Metrics for Traffic Engineering with IS-IS and OSPF", D. Fedyk, A. Ghanwani, R. Balay, J. Ash, A. Vedrenne, Nov 2000
  < draft-fedyk-isis-ospf-te-metrics-01.txt> (00)
• "Extending the Number of LSP Fragments Beyond the 256 Limit", A. Hermelin, Aug 2001
  < draft-hermelin-ext-lsp-frags-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "The Notion of overbooking and Its Application to IP/MPLS Traffic Engineering", C.C. Chen, S. Hadvani, R. Izmailov, Nov 2001
  < draft-cchen-te-overbooking-01.txt> (00)
• "Link Bundling in MPLS Traffic Engineering", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, L. Berger, Nov 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Jan 4 - 18, 2002]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-bundle-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-kompella-mpls-bundle-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Link Bundling Information Base Using SMIv2", M. Dubuc, S. Dharanikota, T.D. Nadeau, J.P. Lang, Sep 2001
  < draft-ietf-mpls-bundle-mib-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-dubuc-mpls-bundle-mib-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "LSP hierarchy with MPLS TE", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, Noc 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Jan 4 - 18, 2002]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-hierarchy-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-kompella-lsp-hierarchy-00.txt>
• "IGP Requirements for Traffic Engineering with MPLS", T. Li, G. Swallow, D. O. Awduche, Feb 1999
  < draft-li-mpls-igp-te-00.txt>
• "Use of IGP Metric as a second TE Metric", F.L. Faucheur, R. Uppili, A. Vedrenne, P. Merckx, T. Telkamp, Nov 2001
  < draft-lefaucheur-te-metric-igp-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS Traffic Engineering Management Information Base Using SMIv2", C. Srinivasan, A. Viswanathan, T.D. Nadeau, Aug 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Jan 5 - Jan 19, 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-te-mib-07.txt> (06, 05, 04, 03, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-srinivasan-mpls-te-mib-01.txt> (00)
• "Extensions to the MPLS Traffic Engineering Management Information Base in Support of Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching", T.D. Nadeau, A. Farrel, T. Hall, E. Harrison, C. Srinivasan, A. Viswanathan, Apr 2001
  < draft-nadeau-mpls-gmpls-te-mib-00.txt>
• "A Traffic Engineering MIB", K. Kompella, Oct 2001
  < draft-ietf-tewg-mib-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-kompella-mpls-te-mib-00.txt>
• "BGP-4 support for Traffic Engineering", B. Abarbanel, S. Venkatachalam, Jun 2000
  < draft-abarbanel-idr-bgp4-te-01.txt> (00)
• "A Framework for the LSP Setup Across IGP Areas for MPLS Traffic Engineering", S.K. Venkatachalam, S. Dharanikota, S.Dharanikota, Nov 2001
  < draft-venkatachalam-interarea-mpls-te-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Calculating IGP routes over Traffic Engineering tunnels", N. Shen, H. Smit, Jun 1999
  < draft-hsmit-mpls-igp-spf-00.txt>
• "Distributed Constraints Exchangers", C-Y Lee, A. Celer, N. Gammage, S. Ghanti, G. Ash, Mar 2001
  < draft-lee-mpls-te-exchange-01.txt> (00)
• "Some Comments on the Use of MPLS Traffic Engineering for SONET/SDH Path Establishment", G. Bernstein, Mar 2000
  < draft-bernstein-mpls-sonet-00.txt>
• "Extensions to OSPF and IS-IS in support of MPLS for SDH/SONET Control">, E. Mannie, G. Bernstein, B. Rajagopalan, M. Raftelis, D. Papadimitriou, A. Das, S. Katukam, V. Sharma, Dec 2001
  < draft-mannie-mpls-sdh-ospf-isis-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Capacity Engineering of IP-based Networks with MPLS", W. Lai, Jul 2000
  < draft-wlai-tewg-cap-eng-01.txt> (00)
• "IGP-Independent Routing Support for Traffic Engineering", B. Rajagopalan, Feb 1999
  < draft-rajagopalan-igpfree-te-00.txt>
• "Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Summary LSA", N. Fujita, A. Iwata, Mar 2000
  < draft-fujita-ospf-te-summary-00.txt>
• "Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF", D. Katz, D. Yeung, K. Kompella, Oct 2001
  < draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic-06.txt> (05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF", N. Bitar, R. Rao, K. Muthukrishnan, Jul 2001
  < draft-bitar-rao-ospf-diffserv-mpls-01.txt> (00)
• "OSPF Extensions for Traffic Engineering", D.M. Yeung, Feb 1999
  < draft-yeung-ospf-traffic-00.txt>
• "New TE LSAs to extend OSPF for Traffic Engineering", P. Srisuresh, P. Joseph, Jun 2001
  < draft-srisuresh-ospf-te-00.txt>
• "OSPF Extensions to Support Inter-Area Traffic Engineering", S. Venkatachalam, D. Papadimitriou, S. Dharanikota, B. Abarbanel, Dec 2001
  < draft-venkatachalam-ospf-traffic-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Using Two Octets for Bandwidth Values in OSPF and ISIS extensions for Traffic Engineering"
  < draft-ma-ospf-isis-te-00.txt>
• "OSPF, IS-IS, RSVP, CR-LDP Extensions to Support Inter-Area Traffic Engineering Using MPLS TE", S. Dharanikota, S.K. Venkatachalam, T. Nadeau, Dec 2001
  < draft-dharanikota-interarea-mpls-te-ext-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "IS-IS extensions for Traffic Engineering", T. Li, H. Smit, Jun 2001
  < draft-ietf-isis-traffic-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "Network Survivability Considerations for Traffic Engineered IP Networks", K. Owens, V. Sharma, M. Oommen, Jul 2001
  < draft-owens-te-network-survivability-01.txt> (00)
• "Network Hierarchy and Multilayer Survivability", Wai Sum Lai, D. McDysan, J. Boyle, M. Carlzon, R. Coltun, T. Griffin, E. Kern, T. Reddington, Oct 2001
  < draft-ietf-tewg-restore-hierarchy-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-team-tewg-restore-hierarchy-00.txt>
• "Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) FEC-To-NHLFE (FTN) Management Information Base Using SMIv2", T.D. Nadeau, C. Srinivasan, A. Viswanathan, Aug 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Oct 14 - Oct 26, 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-ftn-mib-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-nadeau-mpls-packet-classifier-mib-01.txt> (00)
• "Traffic Engineering with Unnumbered Links", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, Sep 2000
  < draft-kompella-mpls-unnum-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Notes on Path Computation in Constraint-Based Routing", K. Kompella, D. O. Awduche
  < draft-kompella-te-pathcomp-00.txt>
• "Operational measurements for Traffic Engineering", B. Christian, B. Davies, H.Tse, Jul 2000
  < draft-christian-tewg-measurement-00.txt>
• "Level3 MPLS Protocol Architecture", V. Springer, C. Pierantozzi, J. Boyle, Aug 2000
  < draft-springer-te-level3bcp-00.txt>
• "Scored Fair Metric Calculation", S. Giacalone, Sep 2000
  < draft-giacalone-scored-fair-metric-routing-00.txt>
• "Multi-area MPLS Traffic Engineering", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, J.P. Vasseur, Nov 2001
  < draft-kompella-mpls-multiarea-te-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Requirements for Multi-Area TE", J. Ash, J. Strand, C.Y. Lee, A. Celer, N. Gammage, S. Ganti, A. Iwata, N. Fujita, A. Farrel, S. Dharanikota, S. Venkatachalam, D. Papadimitriou, J.P. Vasseur, Nov 2001
  < draft-ash-multi-area-te-reqmts-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-ash-ccamp-multi-area-te-reqmts-00.txt>
• "Bandwidth Accounting for Traffic Engineering", K. Kompella, Jul 2001
  < draft-kompella-tewg-bw-acct-00.txt>

• "Requirements for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", F.L. Faucheur, T.D. Nadeau, M. Tatham, T. Telkamp, D. Cooper, J. Boyle, W. Lai, L. Fang, J. Ash, P. Hicks, A. Chiu, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-tewg-diff-te-reqts-02.txt> (01, 00), Pre: < draft-ietf-mpls-diff-te-reqts-00.txt>, PrePre: < draft-lefaucheur-diff-te-reqts-00.txt>
• "Protocol extensions for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", F.L. Faucheur, T. Nadeau, J. Boyle, K. Kompella, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, Nov 2001
  < draft-lefaucheur-diff-te-proto-01.txt> (00)
• "Extensions to IS-IS, OSPF, RSVP and CR-LDP for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", F.L. Faucheur, T.D. Nadeau, A. Chiu, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, Feb 2001
  < draft-ietf-mpls-diff-te-ext-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-lefaucheur-diff-te-ext-00.txt>
• "Extensions to OSPF for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", F.L. Faucheur, T.D. Nadeau, A. Chiu, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, Feb 2001
  < draft-ietf-ospf-diff-te-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-lefaucheur-diff-te-ospf-00.txt>
• "Extensions to ISIS for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", F.L. Faucheur, T.D. Nadeau, A. Chiu, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, Feb 2001
  < draft-ietf-isis-diff-te-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-lefaucheur-diff-te-isis-00.txt>
• "Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering Network Management Information Base Using SMIv2", T.D. Nadeau, F.L. Faucheur, Angela Chiu, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, M. Tatham, Jul 2001
  < draft-nadeau-mpls-ds-te-mib-01.txt> (00)
• "Requirements for Policy Enabled MPLS", S.Wright, S.Herzog, F.Reichmeyer, R. Jaeger, Mar 2000
  < draft-wright-policy-mpls-00.txt>
• "Policy-Based Load-Balancing in Traffic-Engineered MPLS Networks", S.Wright, F.Reichmeyer, R.Jaeger, M.Gibson, Jun 2000
  < draft-wright-mpls-te-policy-00.txt>
• "Policy Framework QoS Information Model for MPLS", K. Isoyama, M. Yoshida, M. Brunner, A. Kind, J. Quittek, Jul 2000
  < draft-isoyama-policy-mpls-info-model-00.txt>
• "Policy Information Model for MPLS Traffic Engineering", K. Isoyama, M. Brunner, M. Yoshida, J. Quittek, R. Chadha, G. Mykoniatis, A. Poylisher, R. Vaidyanathan, A. Kind, F. Reichmeyer, Dec 2000
  < draft-chadha-policy-mpls-te-01.txt> (00)
• "MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) Setup Policy Information Base", H. Hegde, R. Sahita, Jul 2001
  < draft-hegde-mpls-setup-pib-00.txt>
• "COPS Usage for MPLS/Traffic Engineering", F. Reichmeyer, S. Wright, M. Gibson, Jul 2000
  < draft-franr-mpls-cops-00.txt>
• "A COPS client-type for IP traffic engineering", C. Jacquenet, Feb 2001
  < draft-jacquenet-ip-te-cops-01.txt> (00)

• "Engineering Paths for Multicast Traffic using MPLS", C-Y Lee, L. Andersson, K. Carlberg, B. Akyol, Oct 1999
  < draft-leecy-multicast-te-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS Multicast Traffic Engineering", L. Wu, P, Cheval, D. Ooms, A. Mondrus, Jun 1999
  < draft-wu-mpls-multicast-te-00.txt>
• "Traffic Engineering & QoS Methods for IP-, ATM-, & TDM-Based Multiservice Networks", G.R. Ash, Oct 2001
  < draft-ietf-tewg-qos-routing-04.txt> (03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-ash-te-qos-routing-01.txt> (00) (PDF)
• "MPLS Multicast Traffic Engineering", D. Ooms, R. Hoebeke, P. Cheval, L. Wu, Feb 2001
  < draft-ooms-mpls-multicast-te-00.txt>

QoS

• "Integrated Services across MPLS domains using CR-LDP signalling", F. Tommasi, S. Molendini, A. Tricco, May 2001
  < draft-tommasi-mpls-intserv-01.txt> (00)
• "QoS Resource Management in MPLS-Based Networks", G. Ash, B. Jamoussi, Y. Lee, O. Aboul-Magd, Feb 1999
  < draft-ash-qos-routing-00.txt>
• "UNITE: An Architecture for Lightweight Signaling", K. Ramakrishnan, G. Hjalmtysson, K. Merwe, F. Bonomi, S. Kumar, M. Wong, Aug 1998
  < draft-ramakrishnan-mpls-unite-00.txt>
• "An Extended QoS Architecture Supporting Differentiated Resilience Requirements of IP Services", A. Kirstaedter, A. Autenrieth, Jul 2000
  < draft-kirstaedter-extqosarch-00.txt>
• "Routing Guidelines for Efficient Routing Methods", G. Ash, Oct 1999
  < draft-ash-itu-sg2-routing-guidelines-00.txt>
• "Routing of Multimedia Connections when Interworking with PSTN, ATM, and IP Networks", G. Ash, Y. Lee, Oct 1999
  < draft-ash-itu-sg2-qos-routing-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "The management of MPLS LSPs for scalable QoS Service Provision", M. Gibson, Mar 2000
  < draft-gibson-manage-mpls-qos-01.txt> (00)
• "Additional OSPF Extensions for Traffic Engineering and QoS Routing", W. Wimer, Feb 1999
  < draft-wimer-ospf-traffic-00.txt>
• "Expanded Simulation Models for IntServ and DiffServ with MPLS", M. Pullen, Y. Huang, L. Huang, P. Singh, Nov 2001
  < draft-pullen-qos-sim-models-01.txt> (00)

Path Protection

• "Protection/Restoration of MPLS Networks", S. Makam, V. Sharma, K. Owens, C. Huang, Oct 1999
  < draft-makam-mpls-protection-00.txt>
• "A Path Protection/Restoration Mechanism for MPLS Networks", K. Owens, V. Sharma, S. Makam, B. Mack-Crane, C. Huang, Jul 2001
  < draft-chang-mpls-path-protection-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "Extensions to CRLDP for MPLS Path Protection", K. Owens, V. Sharma, S. Makam, B. Mack-Crane, C. Huang, B Akyol, Jul 2001
  < draft-owens-crldp-path-protection-ext-01.txt> (00)
• "Extensions to RSVP-TE for MPLS Path Protection", K. Owens, V. Sharma, S. Makam, B. Mack-Crane, C. Huang, B Akyol, Jul 2001
  < draft-chang-mpls-rsvpte-path-protection-ext-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "General Considerations for Bandwidth Reservation in Protection", L. Mo, Jul 2000
  < draft-mo-mpls-protection-00.txt>
• "Framework for MPLS-Based Recovery", V. Sharma, B.M. Crane, S. Makam, K. Owens, C. Huang, F. Hellstrand, J. Weil, L. Andersson, B. Jamoussi, B. Cain, S. Civanlar, A. Chiu, Jul 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Aug 21 - Sep 5, 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-recovery-frmwrk-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-makam-mpls-recovery-frmwrk-01.txt> (00)
• "Extensions to CR-LDP and RSVP-TE for setup of pre-established recovery tunnels", F. Hellstrand, L. Andersson, Nov 2000
  < draft-hellstrand-mpls-recovery-merge-01.txt> (00)
• "Global path recovery enhancement using Notify Reverse LSP", V. Suraev, Apr 2001
  < draft-suraev-mpls-globl-recov-enhm-00.txt>
• "Fast Restoration of MPLS Label Switched Paths", S. Shew, Oct 1999
  < draft-shew-lsp-restoration-00.txt>
• "Shared backup Label Switched Path restoration", S. Kini, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, S. Sengupta, C. Villamizar, May 2001
  < draft-kini-restoration-shared-backup-01.txt> (00)
• "Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol extensions for Label Switched Path restoration", S. Kini, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, C. Villamizar, Oct 2000
  < draft-kini-ospf-lsp-restoration-00.txt>
• "Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol extensions for Label Switched Path restoration", S. Kini, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, C. Villamizar, Oct 2000
  < draft-kini-isis-lsp-restoration-00.txt>
• "ReSerVation Protocol with Traffic Engineering extensions. Extension for Label Switched Path restoration", S. Kini, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, C. Villamizar, Oct 2000
  < draft-kini-rsvp-lsp-restoration-00.txt>
• "Calculation of protection paths and proxy interfaces in optical networks using OSPF", D. Dovolsky, I. Bryskin, Jun 2000
  < draft-dovolsky-bryskin-ospf-pathprotect-proxy-00.txt>
• "Architectural Framework for Automatic Protection Provisioning In Dynamic Optical Rings", N. Ghani, J. Fu, D. Guo, X. Liu, Z. Zhang, P. Bonenfant, L. Zhang, A.R. Moral, M. Krishnaswamy, D. Papadimitriou, S. Dharanikota, R. Jain, Mar 2001
  < draft-ghani-optical-rings-01.txt> (00)
• "Protection Scheme for Optical Channel Concatenation", Y. Lee, R. Damle, E. Brendel, R. Hartani, V. Sharma, Jun 2001
  < draft-ylee-protection-occ-00.txt>
• "Signaling for Protection and Restoration in Optical Mesh Networks", B. Rajagopalan, D. Saha, G. Bernstein, V. Sharma, A. Banerjee, J. Drake, J. Lang, J. Yates, G. Li, Nov 2001
  < draft-bala-protection-restoration-signaling-00.txt>
• "NNI Path Protection Control Plane Issues", Ling-Zhong Liu, G.R. Young, Apr 2001
  < draft-young-opt-nni-prot-issues-00.txt>
• "Packet-Optical Escalation Strategies - Framework", D. Papadimitriou, J. Jones, D. Basak, R. Hartani, Nov 2001
  < draft-pbh-packet-optical-escalation-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Generalized MPLS Recovery Mechanisms", J.P. Lang, J. Drake, Y. Rekhter, A. Farrel, Jul 2001
  < draft-lang-ccamp-recovery-01.txt> (00)
• "Requirement Framework for Fast Re-route with MPLS", L. Andersson, B. Cain, B. Jamoussi, Oct 1999
  < draft-andersson-reroute-frmwrk-00.txt>
• "A Method for Setting an Alternative Label Switched Paths to Handle Fast Reroute", D. Haskin, R. Krishnan, Nov 2000
  < draft-haskin-mpls-fast-reroute-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "A Method for MPLS LSP Fast-Reroute Using RSVP Detours", Der-Hwa Gan, P. Pan, A. Ayyangar, K. Kompella, Apr 2001
  < draft-gan-fast-reroute-00.txt>
• "MPLS Signaling Extensions for Shared Fast Rerouting", A. Iwata, N. Fujita, T. Nishida, Jul 2001
  < draft-iwata-mpls-shared-fastreroute-00.txt>

RSVP

• "Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels", D. O. Awduche, L. Berger, D. Gan, T. Li, V. Srinivasan, G. Swallow, Dec 2001
  RFC3209 [PS], was < draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-tunnel-09.txt> (08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-swallow-mpls-rsvp-trafeng-00.txt>
• "Generalized MPLS Signaling - RSVP-TE Extensions", P. Ashwood-Smith, A. Banerjee, L. Berger, G. Bernstein, J. Drake, Y. Fan, K. Kompella, J.P. Lang, F. Liaw, E. Mannie, Ping Pan, B. Rajagopalan, Y. Rekhter, D. Saha, V. Sharma, G. Swallow, Z.B. Tang, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-rsvp-te-06.txt> (05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Applicability Statement for Extensions to RSVP for LSP-Tunnels", D. O. Awduche, A. Hannan, X. Xiao, Dec 2001
  RFC3210 [I], was < draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-tunnel-applicability-02.txt> (01, 00), Pre: < draft-awduche-mpls-rsvp-tunnel-applicability-01.txt> (00)
• "Definition of the MPLS FlowSpec for RSVP-TE", P. Iovanna, R. Mameli, G. Piantanida, S. Salsano, Oct 2001
  < draft-iovanna-rsvp-mpls-flowspec-00.txt>
• "Detecting Data Plane Liveliness in RSVP-TE", P. Pan, N. Sheth, D. Cooper, G. Swallow, S. Wadhwa, R. Bonica, Nov 2001
  < draft-pan-lsp-ping-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Graceful Restart Mechanism for RSVP-TE", P. Pan, Y. Rekhter, K. Kompella, F. Liaw, D. Pendarakis, G. Swallow, J. Drake, Jul 2001
  < draft-pan-rsvp-te-restart-01.txt> (00)
• "RSVP Label Allocation for Backup Tunnels", R. Goguen, G. Swallow, Nov 2000
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Mar 28 - Apr 11, 2001]
  < draft-swallow-rsvp-bypass-label-01.txt> (00)
• "Crankback Routing Extensions for MPLS Signaling with RSVP-TE", A. Iwata, N. Fujita, G.R. Ash, A. Farrel, Dec 2000
  < draft-iwata-mpls-crankback-rsvp-te-00.txt>
• "RSVP Hierarchical Summary Refresh", G. Swallow, Oct 1999
  < draft-swallow-rsvp-hierarchical-refresh-00.txt>
• "RSVP Refresh Reduction Extensions", L. Berger, Der-Hwa Gan, G. Swallow, P. Pan, F. Tommasi, S. Molendini, Jun 2000
  < draft-ietf-rsvp-refresh-reduct-05.txt> (04, 03, 02, 01)
• "RSVP Refresh Overhead Reduction by State Compression" L. Wang, A. Terzis, L. Zhang, Mar 2000
  < draft-ietf-rsvp-state-compression-03.txt>, Pre: < draft-wang-rsvp-state-compression-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Extensions to RSVP to Handle Establishment of Alternate Label-Switched Paths for Fast Re-route", R. Krishnan, D. Haskin, Jun 1999
  < draft-krishnan-mpls-reroute-rsvpext-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS RSVP-TE Interoperability for Local Protection/Fast Reroute", A. Atlas, M. Jork, Nov 2001
  < draft-atlas-rsvp-local-protect-interop-02.txt> (01 00)
• "Fast Reroute Techniques in RSVP-TE", Ping Pan, Der-Hwa Gan, G. Swallow, J.P. Vasseur, D. Cooper, A. Atlas, M. Jork, Nov 2001
  < draft-ping-rsvp-fastreroute-00.txt>
• "RSVP-TE Failure Recovery (Resynchronization after Failure)", E. Tempest, S. Ballarte, Jul 2001
  < draft-tempest-mpls-ccamp-rsvp-resync-00.txt>
• "Extensions to RSVP-TE for Supporting Diverse Path Protection", Dan Guo, Jibin Zhan, N. Ravindran, P. Siva, Wenjing Chu, R. Cooper, R. Cheung, James Fu, Jul 2001
  < draft-guo-rsvp-te-extensions-00.txt>
• "RSVP-TE Extensions For Shared-Mesh Restoration in Transport Networks", G. Li, C. Kalmanek, J. Yates, G. Bernstein, F. Liaw, V. Sharma, Nov 2001
  < draft-li-shared-mesh-restoration-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS Using RSVP and ATM VC Switching", W. Wimer, Jun 1999
  < draft-wimer-mpls-atm-rsvp-00.txt>
• "Use of Label Switching With RSVP", B. Davie, Y. Rekhter, E. Rosen, A. Viswanathan, V. Srinivasan, S. Blake, Mar 1998
  < draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-00.txt>, Pre(C): < draft-davie-mpls-rsvp-01.txt> (00),
  Pre(I): < draft-viswanathan-mpls-rsvp-00.txt>, PrePre(I) < draft-viswanathan-aris-rsvp-00.txt>
• "Explicit Route Support in MPLS", B. Davie, T. Li, E. Rosen, Y. Rekhter, Nov 1997
  < draft-davie-mpls-explicit-routes-00.txt>
• "BGRP: A Framework for Scalable Resource Reservation", P. Pan, E. Hahne, H. Schulzrinne, Jan 2000
  < draft-pan-bgrp-framework-00.txt>
• "Signalling Unnumbered Links in RSVP-TE", K. Kompella, Y. Rekhter, Nov 2001
  [MPLS WG Last Call, Jan 4 - 18, 2002]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-unnum-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-kompella-mpls-rsvp-unnum-00.txt>
• "Expanded Explicit Route Object for RSVP-TE", B. A. Akyol, V. Kompella, V. Sharma, Feb 2001
  < draft-akyol-mpls-exp-ero-00.txt>
• "Signaling Virtual Circuit Label Using RSVP-TE", M. Machacek, T. Cai, Feb 2001
  < draft-cai-vc-rsvp-te-00.txt>
• "Carrying Constraints in RSVP", K. Kompella, Feb 2001
  < draft-kompella-mpls-rsvp-constraints-00.txt>
• "RSVP Path computation request and reply messages", JP Vasseur, C. Iturralde, R. Zhang, N. Constantine, X. Vinet, S. Matsushima, Nov 2001
  < draft-vasseur-mpls-computation-rsvp-02.txt> (00)
• "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for Multicast LSP Tunnels", D Cheng, Oct 2001
  < draft-cheng-mpls-rsvp-multicast-er-00.txt>

Diffserv

• "Differentiated Services in MPLS Networks", J. Heinanen, Jun 1999
  < draft-heinanen-diffserv-mpls-00.txt>
• "MPLS Support of Differentiated Services", F. Faucheur, L. Wu, B. Davie, S. Davari, P. Vaananen, R. Krishnan, P. Cheval, J. Heinanen, Apr 2001
  [IESG has approved the publication as a PS, Nov 2001]
  < draft-ietf-mpls-diff-ext-09.txt> (08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: draft-wu-mpls-diff-ext-01.txt> (00)
• "Alternative Technical Solution for MPLS DiffServ TE", Jerry Ash, Luyuan Fang, Wai Sum Lai, Aug 2001
  < draft-ash-mpls-diffserv-te-alternative-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "MPLS Support of Differentiated Services using E-LSP", S. Ganti, N. Seddigh, B. Nandy, Nov 2001
  < draft-ganti-mpls-diffserv-elsp-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS Support of Differentiated Services over PPP links", F. Faucheur, S. Davari, R. Krishnan, P. Vaananen, B. Davie, Jun 1999
  < draft-lefaucheur-mpls-diff-ppp-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-davari-mpls-diff-ppp-00.txt>
• "Provider Architecture for Differentiated Services and Traffic Engineering (PASTE)", T. Li, Y. Rekhter, Oct 1998
  RFC2430 [I], was < draft-li-paste-00.txt>
• "MATE: MPLS Adaptive Traffic Engineering", I. Widjaja, A. Elwalid, Oct 1999
  < draft-widjaja-mpls-mate-01.txt> (00)
• "A Framework for Service Differentiation in MPLS Networks", P. Vaananen, Mar 2000
  < draft-vaananen-mpls-svc-diff-framework-00.txt>
• "Achieving Assured Service Levels through Source Routed MPLS", M. Gibson, Feb 2001
  < draft-gibson-mpls-srcroute-00.txt>
• "Proposed MPLS/DiffServ TE Class Types", J. Ash, C. Dvorak, Wai Sum Lai, A. Morton, P. Tarapore, Nov 2001
  < draft-ash-mpls-diffserv-te-class-types-00.txt>

VPN

• "A Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture", K. Muthukrishnan, C. Kathirvelu, T. Walsh, A. Malis, F. Ammann, J.M. Xiao, J. Sumimoto, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-rfc2917bis-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-muthukrishnan-rfc2917bis-01.txt> (00)
• "Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture", K. Muthukrishnan, A. Malis, Sep 2000
  RFC2917 [I], was < draft-muthukrishnan-mpls-corevpn-arch-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre:< draft-muthukrishnan-corevpn-arch-00.txt>
• "Guidelines of Applicability Statements for PPVPNs", J. Sumimoto, M. Suzuki, M. Carugi, C. Y. Lee, Nov 2001
  < draft-sumimoto-ppvpn-applicability-guidelines-01.txt (00)
• "A Core MPLS IP VPN Link Broadcast And Virtual Router Discovery", C. Kathirvelu, K. Muthukrishnan, T. Walsh, A. Malis, F. Ammann, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-corevpn-disc-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-kathirvelu-corevpn-disc-01.txt> (00)
• "Hierarchical VPN over MPLS Transport", C. Kathirvelu, K. Muthukrishnan, T. Walsh, A. Malis, F. Ammann, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-hiervpn-corevpn-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-kathirvelu-hiervpn-corevpn-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS VPN Architecture", D. Jamieson, B. Jamoussi, G. Wright, P. Beaubien, Aug 1998
  < draft-jamieson-mpls-vpn-00.txt>
• "VPN support with MPLS", J. Heinanen, E. Rosen, Mar 1998
  < draft-heinanen-mpls-vpn-01.txt> (00)
• "MPLS Mappings of Generic VPN Mechanisms", J. Heinanen, B. Gleeson, Aug 1998
  < draft-heinanen-generic-vpn-mpls-00.txt>
• "IP VPN Realization using MPLS Tunnels", L. Casey, I. Cunningham, R. Eros, Nov 1998
  < draft-casey-vpn-mpls-00.txt>
• "CPE based VPNs using MPLS", T. Li, Oct 1998
  < draft-li-mpls-vpn-00.txt>
• "MPLS VPN Interworking", J. Sumimoto, M. Suzuki, O. Tabata, A. Iwata, Y. Ezaki, M. Doukai, Feb 2000
  < draft-sumimoto-mpls-vpn-interworking-00.txt>
• "Extensions to CR-LDP for VPNs", P. Houlik, Z. Zhang, S. Balaji, Mar 2000
  < draft-zhang-crldp-ext-for-vpn-00.txt>
• "BGP/MPLS VPNs", E.C. Rosen, Y. Rekhter, T. Bogovic, R. Vaidyanathan, S.J. Brannon, M. Carugi, C.J. Chase, L. Fang, T.W. Chung, J.D. Clercq, E. Dean, P. Hitchin, A. Smith, M. Leelanivas, D. Marshall, L. Martini, M.J. Morrow, V. Srinivasan, A. Vedrenne, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-rfc2547bis-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-rosen-rfc2547bis-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "BGP/MPLS VPNs", E. Rosen, Y. Rekhter, Mar 1999
  RFC2547 [I], was < draft-rosen-vpn-mpls-01.txt> (00)
• "BGP based Auto-Discovery mechanism for Optical VPNs", D. Fedyk, H. Ould-Brahim, P. Ashwood-Smith, Y. Rekhter, E.C. Rosen, Mar 2001
  < draft-fedyk-bgpvpon-auto-00.txt>
• "BGP/GMPLS Optical VPNs", H. Ould-Brahim, Y. Rekhter, D. Fedyk, P. Ashwood-Smith, E.C. Rosen, E, Mannie, L. Fang, J. Drake, Yong Xue, R. Hartani, D. Papadimitrio, Nov 2001
  < draft-ouldbrahim-bgpgmpls-ovpn-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Multicast in MPLS/BGP VPNs", E.C. Rosen, Y. Cai, D. Tappan, I. Wijnands, Y. Rekhter, D. Farinacci, Jul 2001
  < draft-rosen-vpn-mcast-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "OSPF as the PE/CE Protocol in BGP/MPLS VPNs", E.C. Rosen, P. Psenak, P. Pillay-Esnault, Jul 2001
  < draft-rosen-vpns-ospf-bgp-mpls-03.txt>, Pre: < draft-ietf-ppvpn-ospf-2547-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-rosen-vpns-ospf-bgp-mpls-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Use of PE-PE GRE or IP in RFC2547 VPNs", Y. Rekhter, E. Rosen, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-gre-ip-2547-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-rekhter-ppvpn-gre-ip-2547-00.txt>
• "BGP/VPN: VPN Information Discovery for Network-based VPNs", H. Ould-Brahim, G. Wright, B. Gleeson, Jul 2000
  < draft-ouldbrahim-bgp-vpn-00.txt>
• "MPLS/BGP Virtual Private Network Management Information Base Using SMIv2", T.D. Nadeau, L. Fang, H. Linde, S.J. Brannon, F.M. Chiussi, J. Dube, M. Tatham, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-mpls-vpn-mib-03.txt> (02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-nadeau-mpls-vpn-mib-04.txt> (03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Considerations about possible security extensions to BGP/MPLS VPN", J.D. Clercq, Y. T'Joens, O. Paridaens, C. Sargor, V. Srinivasan, Feb 2001
  < draft-declercq-bgp-mpls-vpn-sec-ext-00.txt>
• "BGP/IPsec VPN", J.D. Clercq, Y. T'Joens, P. De Schrijver, Jul 2000
  < draft-declercq-bgp-ipsec-vpn-00.txt>
• "Uses of IPsec with Provider Provisioned VPNs", B. Gleeson, Feb 2001
  < draft-gleeson-ipsec-ppvpn-00.txt>
• "Use of PE-PE IPsec in RFC2547 VPNs", E.C. Rosen, J.D. Clercq, O. Paridaens, Y. T'Joens, C. Sargor, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-ipsec-2547-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-rosen-ppvpn-ipsec-2547-00.txt>
• "A Framework for Provider Provisioned CE-based Virtual Private Networks using IPsec", J.D. Clercq, O. Paridaens, M. Iyer, A. Krywaniuk, C. Wang, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-ce-based-01.txt> (00)
• "A Framework for Virtual Metropolitan Internetworks (VMI)", T. Senevirathne, W. Augustyn, P. Menezes, Jul 2001
  < draft-senevirathne-vmi-frame-01.txt> (00)
• "Architecture and Model for L2 many-to-many VMI Networks", W. Augustyn, T. Senevirathne, H. Shah, June 2001
  < draft-augustyn-vmi-m2m-arch-00.txt>
• "Directory/LDP Based Unidirectional Virtual Circuit VPNs", J. Heinanen, Nov 2001
  < draft-heinanen-dirldp-uni-vc-vpns-01.txt> (00)
• "Directory/LDP Based Ethernet VPNs", J. Heinanen, Nov 2001
  < draft-heinanen-dirldp-eth-vpns-01.txt> (00)

• "Whither Layer 2 VPNs?", K. Kompella, R. Bonica, Feb 2001
  < draft-kb-ppvpn-l2vpn-motiv-00.txt>
• "MPLS-based Layer 2 VPNs", K. Kompella, M. Leelanivas, Q. Vohra, J. Achirica, R. Bonica, D. Cooper, C. Liljenstolpe, E. Metz, H. Ould-Brahim, C. Sargor, H. Shah, V. Srinivasan, Z. Zhang, Nov 2001
  < draft-kompella-ppvpn-l2vpn-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-kompella-mpls-l2vpn-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "An Architecture for L2VPNs", E.C. Rosen, C. Filsfils, G. Heron, A.G. Malis, L. Martini, S. Vogelsang, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-l2vpn-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-rosen-ppvpn-l2vpn-00.txt>
• "Extensions to MPLS-based Layer 2 VPNs", H. Shah, X. Briard, J. Tsillas, May 2001
  < draft-shah-mpls-l2vpn-ext-00.txt>
• "Reducing over-provisioning for MPLS based L2VPN", H. Shah, Mar 2001
  < draft-shah-mpls-l2vpn-reduce-00.txt>
• "Requirements for Network Based Layer 2 VPN", T. Senevirathne, W. Augustyn, L. Anderson, T. Madsen, P. Menazes, Jul 2001
  < draft-tsenevir-l2-req-01.txt> (00)
• "BGP/MPLS Layer 2 VPN", T. Senevirathne, L. Anderson, T. Madsen, P. Menazes, Jul 2001
  < draft-tsenevir-bgp-l2vpn-01.txt> (00)
• "Service Requirements for Ethernet based L2VPNs", H. Ould-Brahim, F. Neil, F. Palermo, V. Radoaca, J.M. Ramos-Gurrion, P. LeBel, July 2001
  < draft-ouldbrahim-ethernet-l2vpn-requirements-00.txt>
• "Logical PE Auto-Discovery Mechanism", P. Knight, D. Mohan, H. Ould-Brahim, V. Radoaca, Nov 2001
  < draft-knight-l2vpn-lpe-ad-00.txt>
• "VPLS/LPE L2VPNs: Virtual Private LAN Services using Logical PE Architecture", H. Ould-Brahim, V. Radoaca, M. Chen, P. Menezes, Nov 2001
  < draft-ouldbrahim-l2vpn-lpe-01.txt> (00)
• "Architecture and Model for Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS)", W. Augustyn, T. Senevirathne, H. Shah, Nov 2001
  < draft-augustyn-vpls-arch-00.txt>
• "Requirements for Virtual Private LAN Services (VPLS)", W. Augustyn, G. Heron, V. Kompella, T. Networks, M. Lasserre, P. Menezes, H. Ould-Brahim, T. Senevirathne, Oct 2001
  < draft-augustyn-vpls-requirements-00.txt>
• "Bandwidth Management in VPLS Networks", W. Augustyn, Nov 2001
  < draft-augustyn-vpls-bw-00.txt>
• "L2TP Extensions for PPVPN", E. Stelzer, N. Gowda, Nov 2001
  < draft-elwin-l2tpext-ppvpn-00.txt>
• "Single-Sided Signaling for L2VPNs", E.C. Rosen, Oct 2001
  < draft-rosen-ppvpn-l2-signaling-00.txt>

• "A Framework for Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Networks", R. Callon, M. Suzuki, B. Gleeson, A. Malis, K. Muthukrishnan, E. Rosen, C. Sargor, J.J. Yu, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-framework-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Service requirements for Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Networks", M. Carugi, D. McDysan, L. Fang, F. Johansson, A. Nagarajan, J. Sumimoto, R. Wilder, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-requirements-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "Provider-Provisioned VPNs Interworking", H. Kurakami, J. Sumimoto, M. Suzuki, Feb 2001
  < draft-kurakami-ppvpn-interworking-00.txt>
• "An Information Model for Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Networks", P. Lago, R. Scandariato, Feb 2001
  < draft-scandariato-ppvpn-info-model-00.txt>
• "A PPVPN Layer Separation: VPN Tunnels and Core Connectivity", R. Bonica, S. Davari, P. Doolan, A. Doria, T. Dwight, T. Worster, Feb 2001
  < draft-worster-ppvpn-layers-00.txt>
• "A Framework for Network-based VPNs", M. Suzuki and J. Sumimoto, A. Malis, K. Muthukrishnan, Nov 2000
  < draft-suzuki-nbvpn-framework-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Outline for A Framework for Network Based Virtual Private Networks", R. Callon, B. Gleeson, E. Rosen, C. Sargor, J. Yu, Oct 2000
  < draft-callon-nbvpn-outline-00.txt>
• "Network based IP VPN Architecture Using Virtual Routers", H. Ould-Brahim, B. Gleeson, G. Wright, P. Knight, T. Sloane, R. Bach, R. Bubenik, A. Young, J. Yu, C. Sargor, L. Fang, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-vpn-vr-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-ouldbrahim-vpn-vr-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "Virtual Router Management Information Base Using SMIv2", E. Stelzer, S. Hancock, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-vr-mib-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-elwin-ppvpn-vr-mib-00.txt>
• "A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks", B. Gleeson, A. Lin, J. Heinanen, G. Armitage, A. Malis, Nov 1999
  < draft-gleeson-vpn-framework-03.txt> (02, 01, 00)
• "Virtual Private Switched Network Services over an MPLS Network", V. Kompella, S. Khandekar, N. Tingle, G. Heron, J. Heinanen, T.S.C. Soon, R. Wilder, L. Martini, Jul 2001
  < draft-vkompella-ppvpn-vpsn-mpls-00.txt>
• "Requirements for Virtual Private Switched Networks", G. Heron, R. Wilder, J. Heinanen, T. Soon, L. Martini, V. Kompella, J. Regan, S. Khandekar, Jul 2001
  < draft-heron-ppvpn-vpsn-reqmts-00.txt>
• "Service Requirements for Optical Virtual Private Networks", H. Ould-Brahim, Y. Rekhter, L. Fang, Y. Xue, A. Nagarajan, E. Mannie, M. Carugi, J. Drake, D. Papadimitriou, Nov 2001
  < draft-ouldbrahim-ovpn-requirements-01.txt> (00)
• "Interworking between IP VPN and shared backbone multicast domains", A. Celer, Dec 2000
  < draft-celer-vpn-mcast-00.txt>
• "Using BGP as an Auto-Discovery Mechanism for Network-based VPNs", H. Ould-Brahim, B. Gleeson, P. Ashwood-Smith, E.C. Rosen, Y. Rekhter, L. Fang, J.D. Clercq, R. Hartani, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-bgpvpn-auto-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-ouldbrahim-bgpvpn-auto-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Criteria for Evaluating VPN Implementation Mechanisms", J. Yu, L. Jou, A. Matthews, V. Srinivasan, Jul 2000
  < draft-yu-vpn-criteria-00.txt>
• "Tree/Ring/Meshy VPN tunnel systems", H. Hummel, Mar 2001
  < draft-hummel-ppvpn-tunnel-systems-00.txt>
• "IP VPN Policy Information Model", M.Iyer, C. Jacquenet, P.Lago, R. Scandariato, Jul 2001
  < draft-iyer-ipvpn-infomodel-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Requirements for an IP VPN Policy Information Model", M.Iyer, C. Jacquenet, A. Jansen, P. Lago, R. Scandariato, Jun 2001
  < draft-iyer-ipvpn-infomodel-req-01.txt> (00)
• "Layer 3 VPNs using Encapsulation Services Protocol", N. Vasavada, Jul 2001
  < draft-vasavada-ppvpn-es-l3vpn-00.txt>
• "Using DNS for VPN Discovery", J. Luciani, M. Squire, M. Borden, C. Alexander, O. Stokes, P. Lin, J. Heinanen, L. Andersson, R. Brooks, G. Heron, Sep 2001
  < draft-luciani-ppvpn-vpn-discovery-01.txt> (00)

VoMPLS

• "Voice over MPLS Framework", A. Kankkunen, G. Ash, A. Chiu, J. Hopkins, J. Jeffords, F. Le Faucheur, B. Rosen, D. Stacey, A. Yelundur, L. Berger, Jul 2000
  < draft-kankkunen-vompls-fw-01.txt> (00)
• "Bearer Control for VoIP and VoMPLS Control Plane", F.L. Faucheur, B. Thompson, A. Chiu, Mar 2000
  < draft-lefaucheur-vompls-bearer-cont-00.txt>
• "Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP in MPLS", T. Theimer, Jun 2000
  < draft-theimer-tcrtp-mpls-00.txt>

IPv6

• "MPLS label stack encapsulation in Ipv6", S. Radhakrishnan, S. Amara, R. Ramankutty, YingChun Xu, E. Wong, Nov 2001
  < draft-ramankutty-mpls-label-encaps-ipv6-00.txt>
• "An end-to-end usage of the IPv6 flow label", J. Metzler, S. Hauth, Nov 2000,
  < draft-metzler-ipv6-flowlabel-00.txt>
• "Mobile IPv6 support in MPLS", Jun Kyun Choi, Myoung Hun Kim, Yoon Ju Lee, Dec 200
  < draft-choi-mobileip-ipv6-mpls-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "IPv6 Traffic Engineering Tunnel", H. Ishii, K. Fujimoto, S. Sugiyama, H. Ishibashi, Nov 2001
  < draft-ishii-ipv6-te-tunnel-00.txt>
• "QoS-Conditionalized Binding Update in Mobile IPv6", A. Festag, X. Fu, H. Karl, G. Schaefer, C. Fan, C. Kappler, M. Schramm, Jul 2001
  < draft-tkn-mobileip-qosbinding-mipv6-00.txt>
• "BGP-MPLS VPN extension for IPv6 VPN over an IPv4 infrastructure", T.T. Nguyen, G. Gastaud, D. Ooms, J.D. Clercq, M. Carugi, Nov 2001
  < draft-ietf-ppvpn-bgp-ipv6-vpn-01.txt> (00), Pre: < draft-nguyen-bgp-ipv6-vpn-02.txt> (01, 00)

GSMP

• "General Switch Management Protocol V3", A. Doria, F. Hellstrand, K. Sundell, T. Worster, Aug 2001
  [IETF Last Call, Oct 2001]
  < draft-ietf-gsmp-10.txt> (09, 08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00), Pre: < draft-worster-gsmp-00.txt>
• "GSMP message format", G. Kullgren, Jun 2001
  < draft-kullgren-gsmp-message-format-00.txt>
• "Definitions of Managed Objects for the General Switch Management Protocol (GSMP)", H. Sjostrand, J. Buerkle, B. Srinivasan, Nov 2001
  [IETF Last Call, Oct 2001]
  < draft-ietf-gsmp-mib-07.txt> (06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Requirements for the Dynamic Partitioning of Network Elements", T. Anderson, C. Wang, J. Buerkle, Aug 2001
  < draft-ietf-gsmp-dyn-part-reqs-00.txt>
• "Switch Partitioning MIB", T. Anderson, A. Doria, J. Yong, J. Sydir, B. Srinivasan, Feb 2001
  < draft-anderson-gsmp-swpart-mib-00.txt>
• "General Switch Management Protocol Applicability", A. Doria, K. Sundell, Aug 2000
  [IETF Last Call, Oct 2001]
  < draft-ietf-gsmp-applicability-02.txt> (01, 00)
• "Applicability of GSMP as an IETF Protocol", A. Doria, T. Worster, K. Sundell, Oct 1998
  < draft-doria-gsmp-applicability-00.txt>
• "Extended move branch concept for GSMP", J. Buerkle, Nov 1999
  < draft-buerkle-gsmp-move-branch-message-01.txt> (00)
• "Generalized Switch Management Protocol (gsmp) TDM labels", J. Sadler, B. Mack-Crane, Feb 2001
  < draft-sadler-gsmp-tdm-labels-00.txt>

• "An ATM Switch Service Model for GSMP", C. M. Adam, A. A. Lazar, M. Nandikesan, Oct 1999
  < draft-adam-gsmp-service-00.txt>
• "Support for redundant switch controllers in GSMP", K. Sundell, A. Doria, Oct 1999
  < draft-sundell-gsmp-redundancy-00.txt>
• "Additional Explanation of Switch Control Interface Requirements", J. Sydir, Oct 1999
  < draft-sydir-scireq-explanation-00.txt>
• "GSMP Enhancements for Improving Switch Partitioning Support and Simplifying PDU Parsing", M. Peters, B. Srinivasan, J. Sydir, Oct 1999
  < draft-sydir-cplane-gsmp-enhancements-00.txt>
• "Addition of Partition Id to the GSMP header", A. Doria, Feb 1999
  < draft-doria-gsmp-partition-id-00.txt>
• "GSMP WG response to MSF SCI Requirements", K. Sundell, A. Doria, Aug 1999
  < draft-ietf-gsmp-msf-response-00.txt>
• "Service Control Interface Requirements Multiservice Switching Forum (MSF) Contribution", J. McEachern, Jun 1999
  < draft-mceachern-gsmp-scireq-00.txt>
• "TCP Encapsulation for GSMP Messages", C. Wang, T. Worster, Feb 1999
  < draft-wang-gsmp-tcp-encapsulation-00.txt>
• "GSMP Packet Encapsulations for ATM, Ethernet and TCP", T. Worster, A. Doria, J. Buerkle, Aug 2001
  [IETF Last Call, Oct 2001]
  < draft-ietf-gsmp-encaps-04.txt> (03, 02, 01, 00)
• "Requirements for adding Optical Switch Support to GSMP", A. Doria, K. Sundell, S. Shew, H. Khosravi, Jul 2001
  < draft-ietf-gsmp-reqs-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-doria-gsmp-req-olsr-01.txt> (00)

• "A framework for QoS support for open control", P. Ranganathan, J. Evans, A. Kaushal, Dec 1998
  < draft-ranganathan-gsmp-qos-framework-00.txt>
• "A QoS Model for GSMP", Tom Worster, A. Doria, Feb 1999
  < draft-worster-gsmp-qos-00.txt>
• "A Minimal ATM Switch Resource Model for GSMP", C. M. Adam, A. A. Lazar, M. Nandikesan, Oct 1999
  < draft-adam-gsmp-min-resource-00.txt>
• "A Quality of Service Extension to the Minimal Resource Set", C. M. Adam, A. A. Lazar, M. Nandikesan, Oct 1999
  < draft-adam-gsmp-sr-00.txt>
• "The qGSMP Protocol", C. Adam, A. Lazar, M. Nandikesan, Jun 1999
  < draft-adam-gsmp-qgsmp-00.txt>
• "Support Structure for Optional Abstract or Resource Models", A. Doria, F. Hellstrand, C. Adam, Jun 1999
  < draft-doria-gsmp-option-arm-01.txt> (00)

IP Switch (Ipsilon)

• Documents of IP Switch Technology

• Papers
  • Peter Newman, Greg Minshall, Tom Lyon,
    "IP Switching: ATM Under IP" (ps)
  • Peter Newman, Greg Minshall, Tom Lyon, Larry Huston,
    "IP Switching and Gigabit Routers" (ps)
    IEEE Communications Mag online, Jan 1997
  • Peter Newman, Tom Lyon, Greg Minshall,
    "Flow Labelled IP: A Connectionless Approach to ATM"
    IEEE Infocom, March 1996
  • Peter Newman, Tom Lyon, Gerg Minshall,
    "Flow Labelled IP: Connectionless ATM Under IP"
    Engineer's Conference, Interop, April 1996
  • Peter Newman's papers and slides

• Specifications
  • "Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 2.0", P. Newman, W. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, F. Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, G. Minshall, Mar 1998
    RFC2297 [I], was < draft-rfced-info-newman-00.txt>
  • "Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1", P. Newman, W. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, F. Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, G. Minshall, Aug 1996
    RFC1987 [I]
  • "Transmission of Flow Labelled IPv4 on ATM Data Links Ipsilon Version 1.0", P. Newman, W.L. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, F. Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, G. Minshall, May 1996
    RFC1954 [I]
  • "Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol Specification for IPv4 Version 1.0", Newman, W.L. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, F. Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, G. Minshall, May 1996
    RFC1953 [I]
  • "Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 2.0", P. Newman, W. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, F. Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, G. Minshall, Feb 1998
    < draft-rfced-info-ipsilon-gsmp2-00.txt>

• FYI: different concept of IP Switches:-) Ipswitch, Inc., Ipswitch, England

Cell Switch Router (Toshiba)

• Documents of CSR
  • Exective summary: "Hight Speed and Scalable Router for Realtime Internet - CSR: Cell Switch Router -" (3 pages)
  • White paper: "Cell Switch Router" (60pages), Nov 1996
  • About Model CSR 5300 IP Switch

• Papers
  • Y. Katsube, K. Nagami, H. Esaki,
    "Cell Switch Router - Basic Concept and Migration Scenario -",
    Networld+Interop'96 Engineer Conference, July 1996
  • H. Esaki, M. Ohta, K. Nagami,
    "High Speed Datagram Delivery over Internet using ATM Technology",
    IEICE TRANS. Communications, Vol. E78-B, No.8, Aug 1995
  • H. Esaki, K. Nagami, M. Ohta,
    "High Speed Datagram Delivery over Internet using ATM Technology",
    Networld+Interop'95 Engineer Conference, March 1995

• Specifications
  • "Toshiba's Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (FANP) Specification", K. Nagami, Y. Katsube, Y. Shobatake, A. Mogi, S. Matsuzawa, T. Jinmei, H. Esaki, Apr 1997
    RFC2129 [I], was < draft-rfced-info-nagami-00.txt>, Pre: < draft-rfced-info-fanp-00.txt>
  • "Toshiba's Router Architecture Extensions for ATM : Overview", Y. Katsube, K. Nagami, H. Esaki, Feb 1997
    RFC2098 [I], was < draft-katsube-router-atm-overview-02.txt>, Pre: < draft-rfced-info-katsube-00.txt>
  • "Cell Switch Router - Architecture and Protocol Overview", Y. Katsube, K. Nagami, Y. Ohba, S. Matsuzawa, H. Esaki, Dec 1997
    < draft-katsube-csr-arch-00.txt>
  • "Flow Attribute Notification Protocol Version 2 (FANPv2) Neighbor Discovery", K. Nagami, K. Ise, S. Matsuzawa, A. Mogi, Y. Ohba, Dec 1997
    < draft-nagami-csr-fanpv2-nd-00.txt>
  • "Flow Attribute Notification Protocol Version 2 (FANPv2) Distributed Control Mode", K. Nagami, Y. Katsube, S. Matsuzawa, A. Mogi, K. Ise, Dec 1997
    < draft-nagami-csr-fanpv2-dcmode-00.txt>
  • "Flow Attribute Notification Protocol Version 2 (FANPv2) Ingress Control Mode", Y. Ohba, J. Takahashi, S. Matsuzawa, Y. Katsube, Dec 1997
    < draft-ohba-csr-fanpv2-icmode-00.txt>
  • "Comparison of Tag Switching and Cell Switch Router", Y. Ohba, H. Esaki, Y. Katsube, Apr 1997
    < draft-ohba-tagsw-vs-csr-00.txt>
  • "Interoperation Between Distinct Types of Label Switched Paths", Y. Katsube, H. Esaki, Jun 1997
    < draft-katsube-interop-between-lsps-00.txt>
  • "Mapping of IP Flow to Datalink Layer Connection", Y. Katsube, K. Nagami, May 1995
    < draft-katsube-flow-mapping-dl-conn-00.txt>
  • "Conventional IP over ATM", M. Ohta, H. Esaki, K.Nagami, Mar 1995
    < draft-ohta-ip-over-atm-02.txt> (01)
  • "Router Architecture Extensions for ATM : Overview", Y. Katsube, K. Nagami, H. Esaki, Mar 1995
    < draft-esaki-co-cl-ip-forw-atm-01.txt>
  • "Connection Oriented and Connectionless IP Forwarding over ATM Networks", H. Esaki, M. Ohta, K. Nagami, Oct 1994
    < draft-esaki-co-cl-ip-forw-atm-00.txt>

  • Categolized as "Conventional Model" in RFC1932

• Related News Releases
  • Toshiba and Cisco to Cooperate for Next-Generation High-Speed Internetworking Technology (Japanese) (11 Nov, 1996)

• Availability
  • Fujikura ( Japanese)
  • Hitachi ( Japanese) ( Japanese from Hitachi)

Tag Switch (cisco)

• Documents of MPLS,
  • White Paper: "Tag Switching and NetFlow Switching" (in Japanese)

• Specifications (repository)
  • "Cisco Systems' Tag Switching Architecture Overview", Y. Rekhter, B. Davie, D. Katz, E. Rosen, G. Swallow, Feb 1997
    RFC2105 [I], was < draft-rfced-info-rekhter-00.txt>
  • "Multicast Tag Binding and Distribution using PIM", D. Farinacci, Y Rekhter, Nov 1998
    < draft-farinacci-multicast-tagsw-01.txt> (00)
  • "Tag Switching Architecture - Overview", Y. Rekhter, B. Davie, D. Katz, E. Rosen, G. Swallow, D. Farinacci, Jul 1997
    < draft-rekhter-tagswitch-arch-01.txt> (00)
  • "Tag Distribution Protocol", P. Doolan, B. Davie, D. Katz, Y. Rekhter, E. Rosen, May 1997
    < draft-doolan-tdp-spec-01.txt> (00)
  • "Tag Switching Support for Classes of Service", A. Lin, B. Davie, F. Baker, Dec 1996
    < draft-lin-tags-cos-00.txt>
  • "Partitioning Tag Space amoung Multicast Routers on a Common Subnet", D. Farinacci, Dec 1996
    < draft-farinacci-multicast-tag-part-00.txt>
  • "Tag Switching with RSVP", Fred Baker, Yakov Rekhter, December 1996
    < draft-baker-tags-rsvp-00.txt>
  • "Use of Flow Label for Tag Switching", F. Baker et. al., Oct 1996
    < draft-baker-flow-label-00.txt>
  • "A proposal for using RSVP to support source routing in label switching", E. Rosen, Jan 1997
  • "A proposal for traceroute support for label switching", E. Rosen, Jan 1997

• Meetings
  • Tagswitch meeting at MIT/LCS on Nov. 6, 1996.
    • Tag Switching Architechure
    • Tag Swicthing and ATM
    • Tag Distribution Protocol (TDP)

• Cisco's related work
  • NetFlow Switching
  • Express Forwarding

• Related News Releases
  • Toshiba and Cisco to Cooperate for Next-Generation High-Speed Internetworking Technology ( Japanese) (11 Nov, 1996)

• Availability
  • Cisco 12000

Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching (IBM)

• Documentation
  An Overview of IP Switching Technology
• Specifications
  • "ARIS: Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching", A. Viswanathan, N. Feldman, R. Boivie, R. Woundy, Mar 1997
    < draft-viswanathan-aris-overview-00.txt>, Pre: draft-woundy-aris-ipswitching-00.txt>
  • "ARIS Specification", N. Feldman, A. Viswanathan, Mar 1997
    < draft-feldman-aris-spec-00.txt>
  • "ARIS Support for LAN Media Switching", S. Blake, A. Ghanwani, W. Pace, V. Srinivasan, Mar 1997
    < draft-blake-aris-lan-00.txt>

Other Independent Proposals

• VNS: Virtual Network Switching (Nortel)
  • "Nortel's Virtual Network Switching (VNS) Overview", B. Jamoussi, D. Jamieson, D. Williston, S. Gabe, May 1998
    RFC2340 [I]
  • "MPLS-VNS Interworking", B. Jamoussi, D. Jamieson, P. Beaubien, Aug 1998
    < draft-jamoussi-mpls-vns-00.txt>

• IPSOFACTO: IP Switching Over Fast ATM Cell Transport (NEC)
  • "IPSOFACTO: IP Switching Over Fast ATM Cell Transport", A. Acharya, R. Dighe, F. Ansari, Jul 1997
    < draft-acharya-ipsw-fast-cell-00.txt>

• Switching IP Through ATM (Telecom Finland)
  • "SITA proposal", Juha Heinanen

• "step"
  • "Hop, Step, but don't Jump for Scalable Lower Layer Forwarding of Best Effort Traffic", Masataka Ohta, proceedings of INET'97
    • "Simple Unified Networking", M. Ohta, Mar 1997
      < draft-ohta-sun-01.txt> (00)

• SINP (Kyushu University)
  • "Session Identity Notification Protocol (SINP)", Y. Goto, Jan 1996
    < draft-goto-sinp-01.txt>

• Plasma (Kyoto University)
  • "Point-to-point Link Assembly for Simple Multiple Access (PLASMA)", K. Fujikawa, Mar 1997
    < draft-fujikawa-plasma-00.txt>, Pre: draft-fujikawa-ipsvc-01.txt> (00)

Related Research

• IP on ATM (ARL, Washington Univ.)
  • Guru Parulkar, Jonathan Turner,
    "A Strategy for Integrating IP with ATM", SIGCOMM'95, August 1995

• Source Hashing (Washington University in St. Louis)
  • Girish P. Chandranmenon, George Varghese, "Trading Packet Headers for Packet Processing", SIGCOMM'95, August 1995

• Switch-Borne Router (Univ of Pittsburgh)
  • Fahad Hoymany, Daniel Mosse,
    "Switch-Borne Router for High Performance Packet Forwarding of Connectionless Traffic in ATM Networks", proceedings of ICCCN'96, October 1996,

• Flow Characterization (NLANR)
  • K. C. Claffy, Hans-Werner Braun, George C. Polyzos,
    "A parameterizable methodology for Internet traffic flow profiling" (ps)
  • Insight into current Internet traffic workloads

• Papers
  • Steven Lin, Nick McKeown, (Stanford University)
    "A Simulation Study of IP Switching", Sigcomm97 (pdf)
  • T. Worster, A. doria, (General DataComm)
    "Levels of Aggregation in Flow Switching Networks" (pdf)
  • A. Gupta, R. Rom, (Sun Microsystems)
    "Improving VC set-up, management and use via bunching", IFP ATM workshop, Montreal, Sep 1997
  • Praveen Bhaniramka, Wei Sun, Raj Jain,
    "Quality of Service using Traffic Engineering over MPLS: An Analysis", Submitted to GlobeCom'99, Mar 1999.

• The Internet Traffic Archive

• WAN packet size distribution
• Packet size and throughput

Implementations

• NIST Switch (RSVP-TE)(FreeBSD, Linux)
• MPLS for Linux (LDP)(Linux)
• University of Cambridge (Linux)
• AYAME Project (NetBSD)
• IIT Bombay (LDP)(Linux)

• Data Connection Portable MPLS Products (Data Connection)
• FiLS - Ficon Label Switching (Ficon Technology)
• FutureMPLS (Future Software)
• LTCS - Label Traffic Control System (Harris & Jeffries)
• MPLS (Inverness Systems)
• Nortel's MPLS

• IP Navigator (Lucent)
• Ericsson
• Ennovate Networks
• Integral Access

Simulators

• NPAT Network Analysis and Planning Tools (WANDL)
• MNS - MPLS Network Simulator by Gaeil Ahn <fogi@comeng.chungnam.ac.kr>
  • nsnam includes MNS code.
• NIST Switch (FreeBSD, Linux)

Test Tools

• LDPTest 200 and RSVPTest 100 (Digital Technology)
• MPLS-LDP Test cases: (Word, PDF) (Samsung Electronics India Software Operations)

Activities

• MPLScon 2001 Fall (Oct 1-4, Reston, VA, USA)
• MPLScon 2001 Spring (Mar 26-29, San Jose, CA, USA)
• MPLS World Congress 2001 (Feb 6-9, 2001, Paris, France)
• MPLS2000 International Conference - 3rd Annual International Conference on MPLS (Oct 22-24, 2000, Fairfax, VA, USA)
• MPLS - Next Generation Networking (Sep 25-28, 2000, London, England)
• MPLS Summit (Mar 20-21, 2000, San Diego, CA, USA)
• MPLS Forum 2000 (Mar 7-10, 2000, Paris, France)
• MPLS'99 (Jun 22-24, 1999, Paris, France)
• First International Workshop on Multiprotocol Label Switching (IW-MPLS'98) (Nov 12-13, 1998, Virginia, USA) ( Presentations)

• LAST-WG, WIDE Project
  • An article of Experimental testbed of CSR, Tag Switch and IP Switch (in Japanese)
• MPLS Forum
• CA*Net [2|3] MPLS Project Page
• The UNAM MPLS Research Group
• Multiservice Switching Forum
• UNH InterOperability Lab MPLS Consortium
• InteropNet Labs MPLS Web Site
• VoMPLS (Voice over MPLS)
  • Mailing list: vompls@lists.integralaccess.com
  • Send mail to vompls-request@lists.integralaccess.com with subscribe in the body to subscribe

• Computer Communications announces a Special Issue on Multilayer Routing for Gigabit IP

People

• Daniel Obi Awduche
• Eric W. Gray
• Roch Guerin
• Lou Berger
• XiPeng Xiao

Books and Articles

• Vivek Alwayn,
  "Advanced MPLS Design and Implementation",
  Cisco Press, ISBN 158705020X, Sep 2001 (500 pages)
• Eric W. Gray,
  "MPLS: Implementing the Technology",
  Addison Wesley Professional, ISBN 0201657627, Mar 2001 (272 pages, with CD-ROM)
• Zheng Wang,
  "Internet QoS: Architectures and Mechanisms",
  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1-55860-608-4, Mar 2001 (250 pages)
• Uyless Black,
  "MPLS and Label Switching Networks",
  Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN 0130158232, Dec 2000 (236 pages)
• Pete Loshin
  Big Book of Multiprotocol Label Switching RFCs
  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., ISBN 0124558534 Dec 2000 (472 pages)
• Jim Guichard, Ivan Pepelnjak, "MPLS and VPN Archtectures: A Practical Guide to Understanding, Designing and Deploying MPLS and MPLS-Enabled VPNs",
  Cisco Press, ISBN 1587050021, Oct 2000 (448 pages)
• Bruce Davie, Yakov Rekhter,
  "MPLS: Technology and Applications",
  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1-55860-656-4, May 2000 (300 pages)
• Christopher Y. Metz, "IP Switching : Protocols and Architecture", McGraw-Hill Companies, 464 pages, ISBN 0070419531, Oct 1998
• Bruce Davie, Paul Doolan, Yakov Rekhter,
  "Switching in IP Networks: IP Switching, Tag Switching, and Related Technologies",
  Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1-55860-505-3, $44.95, May 1998 (272 pages)

• December 1999 issue of IEEE Communications
• Multiprotocol Label Switching by Mary Petrosky, Packets & Protocols, Performance Computing, Jul 1999

Resources

• The MPLS Resource Center
• MPLS World News
• Dante Malagrin's Layer 3 Switching
• Dante Malagrin's VC merging on ATM
• Eric Mohney's Layer 3 Switching Research
• Oleg L.Zhiozhimov's Layer 3 Switchig
• Jinsuh Shin's mpls resource room
• Prof. Raj Jain's MPLS, MPOA and IP Switching Information Page
• Nortel's "IP Traffic Engineering using MPLS - Explicit Routing in Carrier Networks"
• Tutorial: Introduction to MPLS (at October 1999 NANOG17 Meeting)
• Quick Reference for RSVP-TE Objects
• "Abstract: Building an MPLS Exchange Point" by Steve Feldman
• Smart Routers - Simple Optics
• IP-Optical
• IETF Provider Provisioned Virtual Private Networks WG (PPVPN WG)
• Vinay Ravuri's GMPLS/MPLS Page

Layer 2 Switches Information

• ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode)
  • Encapsulation over AAL5
  • AAL5 VCs merge-capable ATM switches:
    • Northern Telecom's Passport ATM switch
  • References: Cell Relay Retreat, ATM Forum

• Frame Relay
  • References: Frame Relay Forum

• Optical Networks
  • Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF)
  • Optical Domain Service Interconnect (ODSI)
  • Jennifer M. Yates and Michael P. Rumsewicz, Jonathan P. R. Lacey,
    "Wavelength Converters in Dynamically- Reconfigurable WDM Networks"

• FastIP (3COM)
• DirectIP Switching (NBase Communications)
• Vgate and PowerIP (RND Networks)
• Switch Node (Bay Networks)
• 3LS (Madge Networks)
• Automatic Broadcast Control (HP)
• WhitePaper: The Convergence of Layer 2 and Layer 3 in Today's LAN (Foundry Networks)
• WhitePaper: True Multilayer Switching (FlowSize)

• Extreme Networks
• Prominet Corporation
• Multilayer Switch DN8000A (Anritsu)
• Any other works?

• Comparison of Mapping Methods
• Comparison of Multi Layer Routing Models