Re: [ANCP] Last Call: <draft-ietf-ancp-pon-04.txt> (Applicability ofAccess Node Control Mechanism to PON based Broadband Networks)to Informational RFC

On Feb 8, 2013, at 4:07 PM 2/8/13, "GTW" <gtw@gtwassociates.com> wrote:

> Ralph, for clarification ... is there more than the one IP disclosure at http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1734/  ?
> 
> 
> The term  "disclosures" lead me to believe there may be more than one

Good catch.  Typo on my part.  There is just the one disclosure.

- Ralph

> 
> George T. Willingmyre, P.E.
> President GTW Associates
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: Ralph Droms
> Sent: Friday, February 08, 2013 10:53 AM
> To: ietf@ietf.org
> Cc: ancp@ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [ANCP] Last Call:  (Applicability ofAccess Node Control Mechanism to PON based Broadband Networks)to Informational RFC
> 
> Note that this last call is a second last call, to gather comments on the publication of the document considering the IPR disclosures that were published late in the previous IETF last call.
> 
> - Ralph
> 
> On Feb 5, 2013, at 3:57 PM 2/5/13, The IESG <iesg-secretary@ietf.org> wrote:
> 
>> 
>> The IESG has received a request from the Access Node Control Protocol WG
>> (ancp) to consider the following document:
>> - 'Applicability of Access Node Control Mechanism to PON based Broadband
>>  Networks'
>> <draft-ietf-ancp-pon-04.txt> as Informational RFC
>> 
>> The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits
>> final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the
>> ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2013-02-19. Exceptionally, comments may be
>> sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the
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>> 
>> Abstract
>> 
>> 
>>    The purpose of this document is to provide applicability of the
>>    Access Node Control mechanism to PON-based broadband access. The
>>    need for an Access Node Control mechanism between a Network
>>    Access Server (NAS) and an Access Node Complex (a combination of
>>    Optical Line Termination (OLT) and Optical Network Termination
>>    (ONT) elements) is described in a multi-service reference
>>    architecture in order to perform QoS-related, service-related and
>>    Subscriber-related operations. The Access Node Control mechanism
>>    is also extended for interaction between components of the Access
>>    Node Complex (OLT and ONT). The Access Node Control mechanism
>>    will ensure that the transmission of information between the NAS
>>    and Access Node Complex (ANX) and between the OLT and ONT within
>>    an ANX does not need to go through distinct element managers but
>>    rather uses a direct device-to-device communication and stays on
>>    net. This allows for performing access link related operations
>>    within those network elements to meet performance objectives.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> The file can be obtained via
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ancp-pon/
>> 
>> IESG discussion can be tracked via
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-ancp-pon/ballot/
>> 
>> 
>> The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D:
>> 
>>  http://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/1734/
>> 
>> 
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