Re: [Pals] I-D Action: draft-cheng-pals-p2p-pw-multicast-01.txt

Hi,

Please can the authors help me understand why this is a PALS draft, or indeed why it is a draft at all?

I don’t think it proposes to extend the PALS technology. It simply uses PWs to carry L2 (presumably Ethernet) across a provider network, something that PWs already do.

Maybe I don’t understand the draft, but this looks like a deployment description that does not need standardisation.

Please can the authors help the WG better understand why this needs to be an IETF specification?

Best regards

Stewart

> On 19 Nov 2019, at 14:55, internet-drafts@ietf.org wrote:
> 
> 
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
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> 
>        Title           : Efficient Layer 2 Multicast with Point-to-Point Pseudowires
>        Authors         : Weiqiang Cheng
>                          Jie Dong
> 	Filename        : draft-cheng-pals-p2p-pw-multicast-01.txt
> 	Pages           : 6
> 	Date            : 2019-11-18
> 
> Abstract:
>   Multicast services such as Evolved Multimedia Broadcast/Multicast
>   Service (eMBMS) become more and more popular in mobile networks.  In
>   mobile transport network, it is important for the operators to
>   provide efficient transport of multicast services with existing
>   network devices.  This document describes a mechanism of using point-
>   to-point Pseudowires (PW) [RFC3985] to achieve efficient layer 2
>   multicast transportation in mobile transport networks.The document
>   gives a multicast method by utilizing a Point-to-Point (P2P) path
>   between nodes in a packet transport network , according to the
>   destination IP address.  With it, the PTN nodes can replicate and
>   forward the service message, which are received from the multicast
>   server, to the plurality of multicast clients corresponding to the
>   destination IP address.
> 
> 
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-cheng-pals-p2p-pw-multicast/
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> There are also htmlized versions available at:
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> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-cheng-pals-p2p-pw-multicast-01
> 
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-cheng-pals-p2p-pw-multicast-01
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