RFC 5960 on MPLS Transport Profile Data Plane Architecture

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        RFC 5960

        Title:      MPLS Transport Profile Data Plane 
                    Architecture 
        Author:     D. Frost, Ed.,
                    S. Bryant, Ed.,
                    M. Bocci, Ed.
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       August 2010
        Mailbox:    danfrost@cisco.com, 
                    stbryant@cisco.com, 
                    matthew.bocci@alcatel-lucent.com
        Pages:      15
        Characters: 31764
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-mpls-tp-data-plane-04.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5960.txt

The Multiprotocol Label Switching Transport Profile (MPLS-TP) is the
set of MPLS protocol functions applicable to the construction and
operation of packet-switched transport networks.  This document
specifies the subset of these functions that comprises the MPLS-TP
data plane: the architectural layer concerned with the encapsulation
and forwarding of packets within an MPLS-TP network.

This document is a product of a joint Internet Engineering Task Force
(IETF) / International Telecommunication Union Telecommunication
Standardization Sector (ITU-T) effort to include an MPLS Transport
Profile within the IETF MPLS and Pseudowire Emulation Edge-to-Edge
(PWE3) architectures to support the capabilities and functionalities
of a packet transport network.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

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

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track
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