Re: [ANCP] Last Call: <draft-ietf-ancp-pon-04.txt> (Applicability of Access 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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