Document Action: 'Interworking of GMPLS Control and Centralized Controller Systems' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-teas-gmpls-controller-inter-work-17.txt)

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The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'Interworking of GMPLS Control and Centralized Controller Systems'
  (draft-ietf-teas-gmpls-controller-inter-work-17.txt) as Informational RFC

This document is the product of the Traffic Engineering Architecture and
Signaling Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Gunter Van de Velde, Jim Guichard and John
Scudder.

A URL of this Internet-Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-teas-gmpls-controller-inter-work/




Technical Summary

   Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) control allows
   each network element (NE) to perform local resource discovery,
   routing and signaling in a distributed manner.

   On the other hand, with the development of software-defined
   transport networking technology, a set of NEs can be controlled via
   centralized controller hierarchies to address the issues from multi-
   domain, multi-vendor, and multi-technology. An example of such
   centralized architecture is Abstraction and Control of Traffic
   Engineered Networks (ACTN) controller hierarchy described in RFC
   8453.

   Instead of competing with each other, both the distributed and the
   centralized control plane have their own advantages, and should be
   complementary in the system. This document describes how the GMPLS
   distributed control plane can interwork with a centralized
   controller system in a transport network.

Working Group Summary

   Strong consensus from a few individuals and no objections received during WG LC.

Document Quality

  There are no protocol extensions and the document is informational in nature.

Personnel

   The Document Shepherd for this document is Vishnu Pavan Beeram. The
   Responsible Area Director is Jim Guichard.

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