RFC 6667 on LDP 'Typed Wildcard' Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC) for PWid and Generalized PWid FEC Elements

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        RFC 6667

        Title:      LDP 'Typed Wildcard' Forwarding Equivalence 
                    Class (FEC) for PWid and Generalized 
                    PWid FEC Elements 
        Author:     K. Raza, S. Boutros,
                    C. Pignataro
        Status:     Standards Track
        Stream:     IETF
        Date:       July 2012
        Mailbox:    skraza@cisco.com, 
                    sboutros@cisco.com, 
                    cpignata@cisco.com
        Pages:      8
        Characters: 17068
        Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso:   None

        I-D Tag:    draft-ietf-pwe3-pw-typed-wc-fec-03.txt

        URL:        http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6667.txt

The "Typed Wildcard Forwarding Equivalence Class (FEC) Element"
defines an extension to the Label Distribution Protocol (LDP) that
can be used when requesting, withdrawing, or releasing all
label bindings for a given FEC Element type is desired.  However, a Typed
Wildcard FEC Element must be individually defined for each FEC
Element type.  This specification defines the Typed Wildcard FEC
Elements for the Pseudowire Identifier (PWid) (0x80) and Generalized PWid
(0x81) FEC Element types.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]

This document is a product of the Pseudowire Emulation Edge to Edge Working Group of the IETF.

This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol.

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