RFC 5852 on RSVP-TE Signaling Extension for LSP Handover from the Management Plane to the Control Plane in a GMPLS-Enabled Transport Network

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        RFC 5852

        Title:      RSVP-TE Signaling Extension for LSP 
                    Handover from the Management Plane to 
                    the Control Plane in a GMPLS-Enabled 
                    Transport Network 
        Author:     D. Caviglia, D. Ceccarelli,
                    D. Bramanti, D. Li,
                    S. Bardalai
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       April 2010
        Mailbox:    diego.caviglia@ericsson.com, 
                    daniele.ceccarelli@ericsson.com, 
                    danli@huawei.com, 
                    sbardalai@gmail.com
        Pages:      23
        Characters: 49293
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-ccamp-pc-spc-rsvpte-ext-07.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc5852.txt

In a transport network scenario, Data Plane connections controlled by
either a Generalized Multiprotocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Control
Plane (Soft Permanent Connections - SPC) or a Management System
(Permanent Connections - PC) may independently coexist.  The ability
of transforming an existing PC into an SPC and vice versa -- without
actually affecting Data Plane traffic being carried over it -- is a
requirement.  The requirements for the conversion between permanent
connections and switched connections in a GMPLS Network are defined
in RFC 5493.

This memo describes an extension to GMPLS Resource Reservation
Protocol - Traffic Engineering (RSVP-TE) signaling that enables the
transfer of connection ownership between the Management and the
Control Planes.  Such a transfer is referred to as a Handover.  This
document defines all Handover-related procedures.  This includes the
handling of failure conditions and subsequent reversion to original
state.  A basic premise of the extension is that the Handover
procedures must never impact an already established Data Plane
connection.  [STANDARDS TRACK]

This document is a product of the Common Control and Measurement Plane Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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