[Pce] Fwd: I-D Action:draft-ietf-pce-monitoring-09.txt

Section 8 has been added, based on IESG review.

Thanks.

JP.

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> Date: March 22, 2010 1:00:01 PM PDT
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> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts  
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> This draft is a work item of the Path Computation Element Working  
> Group of the IETF.
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> 	Title           : A set of monitoring tools for Path Computation  
> Element based Architecture
> 	Author(s)       : J. Vasseur, et al.
> 	Filename        : draft-ietf-pce-monitoring-09.txt
> 	Pages           : 28
> 	Date            : 2010-03-22
>
> A Path Computation Element (PCE) based architecture has been
> specified for the computation of Traffic Engineering (TE) Label
> Switched Paths (LSPs) in Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) and
> Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) networks in the context of single or
> multiple domains (where a domain refers to a collection of network
> elements within a common sphere of address management or path
> computational responsibility such as IGP areas and Autonomous
> Systems).  Path Computation Clients (PCCs) send computation requests
> to PCEs, and these may forward the requests to and cooperate with
> other PCEs forming a "path computation chain".
>
> In PCE-based environments, it is thus critical to monitor the state
> of the path computation chain for troubleshooting and performance
> monitoring purposes: liveness of each element (PCE) involved in the
> PCE chain, detection of potential resource contention states and
> statistics in term of path computation times are examples of such
> metrics of interest.  This document specifies procedures and
> extensions to the Path Computation Element Protocol (PCEP) in order
> to gather such information.
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