MultiProtocol Label Switching

• Documents
• MPLS Architecture
• ATM GENERAL
• CR-LDP
• Differentiated Services Support
• Encapsulation (PPP/LAN/ATM/FR)
• LDP and Miscellaneous Extensions to LDP
• Multicast
• Optical MPL(ambda)S and Generalized MPLS
• Protection Switching
• QoS
• Routing Related Work
• RSVP Extensions for MPLS
• Traffic Engineering
• Voice over MPLS
• VPN
• Historically Interesting Proposals (chronological order)
• Toshiba's Cell Switching Router
• Ipsilon's IP Switching
• Cisco's Tag Switching
• IBM's Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching
• General Information
• Books
• Implementations
• People
• RFCs and IDs

Documents

MPLS Architecture

• "Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture", Eric Rosen, Arun Viswanathan, Ross Callon, Jan 2001

RFC3031, was draft-ietf-mpls-arch-07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01,
was draft-rosen-mpls-arch-01, 00
• "Issues With MPLS Architecture", Eric Gray, Mar 1998

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• "A Framework for Multiprotocol Label Switching", Ross Callon, Paul Doolan, Nancy Feldman, Andre Fredette, George Swallow, Arun Viswanathan, Sep 1999

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• "MPLS Capability set", Loa Andersson, Billel Jamoussi, Muckai Girish, Tom Worster, Oct 1999

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• "MPLS Capable attribute", A. Mondrus, Jun 1999

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• "MPLS Profiles", E.C. Rosen, Bob Thomas, L. Levine, C, Iturralde, George Swallow, Mar 2000

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• "Stream Aggregation", Andre Fredette, C. White, Loa Andersson, Paul Doolan, Nov 1997

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• "Label Aggregation Technique for LDP", J.R. Leu, R. Rennison, S. Vogelsang, Jul 2000

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• "Aggregation of RSVP for IPv4 and IPv6 Reservations", Fred Baker, C. Iturralde, Francois Le Faucheur, Bruce Davie, Mar 2000

draft-ietf-issll-rsvp-aggr-02, 00,
was draft-baker-rsvp-aggregation-01
• "MPLS Label Switch Router Management Information Base Using SMIv2", C. Srinivasan, Arun Viswanathan, T.D. Nadeau, Jan 2001

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• "Integration of Mobile IP and MPLS", Z. Ren, C. Tham, C. Foo, C. Ko, Jul 2000

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• "MPLampS: Electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane)", Bala Rajagopalan, Sep 2000

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• "Enhanced LSP Services", D. Papadimitriou, J. Jones, Nov 2000

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• "Tracing Requirements for Generic Tunnels", R. Bonica, Kireeti Kompella, D. Meyer, Dec 2000

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• "Path Request and Path Reply Message", C-Y Lee, S. Ganti, A. Srinivasan, Nov 2000

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• "Secure MPLS - Encryption and Authentication of MPLS payloads", T. Senevirathne, Jan 2001

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Routing Related Work

• "MPLS Loop Prevention Mechanism", Yoshihiro Ohba, Yasuhiro Katsube, Eric Rosen, Paul Doolan, Apr 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-loop-prevention-03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-ohba-mpls-loop-prevention-02, 01, 00
• "Avoiding Loops in MPLS", C-Y Lee, Loa Andersson, Yoshihiro Ohba, Oct 1999

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• "MPLS Routing Dynamics", S. Ayandeh, Y. Fan, Mar 1998

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• "MPLS Optimized Multipath (MPLS--OMP)", C. Villamizar, Feb 1999

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(Postscript - draft-villamizar-mpls-omp-01, 00)
(Simulation Results)
• "A probe method in MPLS loop avoidance", W. Yahong, Dec 1999

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• "OSPF Extensions in Support of MPL(ambda)S", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, A. Banerjee, John Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, Jul 2000

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• "OSPF Extensions in Support of Generalized MPLS", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, A. Banerjee, John Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, Nov 2000

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• "IS-IS Extensions in Support of Generalized MPLS", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, A. Banerjee, John Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-isis-gmpls-extensions-01, 00
was draft-kompella-isis-ompls-extensions-00
• "Extensions to IS-IS/OSPF and RSVP in support of MPL(ambda)S", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, Daniel O. Awduche, A. Hannan, G. Hjalmtysson, Jeremy Lawrence, S. Okamoto, D. Basak, G. Bernstein, John Drake, N. Margalit, E. Stern, Feb 2000

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LDP (Label Distribution Protocol) and Miscellaneous Extensions to LDP

• "LDP Specification", Loa Andersson, Paul Doolan, Nancy Feldman, Andre Fredette, Bob Thomas, Jan 2001

RFC3036, was draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-11, 10, 09, 08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-andersson-mpls-ldp-00,
was draft-feldman-ldp-spec-00
• "LDP State Machine", Christophe Boscher, Pierrick Cheval, Liwen Wu, Eric Gray, Jan 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-state-03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-wu-mpls-ldp-state-00
• "MPLS LDP Query Message Description", Peter Ashwood-Smih, A. Paraschiv, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-query-01, 00
was draft-paraschiv-mpls-lsp-query-00
• "End to end authentication for LDP", J.D. Clercq, O. Paridaens, Y. T'Joens, P.D. Schrijver, Nov 2000

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• "LDP Applicability", Bob Thomas, Eric Gray, Jan 2001

RFC3037 [I], was draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-applic-02, 01, 00,
was draft-thomas-ldp-applic-00
• "Fault Tolerance for LDP and CR-LDP", A. Farrel, P. Brittain, P. Matthews, Eric Gray, Oct 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-ft-00,
was draft-brittain-mpls-ldp-ft-00,
was draft-farrel-mpls-ldp-ft-00
• "LDP/CR-LDP Session Reestablishment -- I'll Be Back", P. Matthews, Feb 2000

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• "Definitions of Managed Objects for the Multiprotocol Label Switching, Label Distribution Protocol (LDP)", Joan Cucchiara, H. Sjostrand, James Luciani, Aug 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-mib-07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-cucchiara-mpls-ldp-mib-00
• "Generic Label Distribution Protocol Specification", Eric Gray, Z. Wang, Grenville Armitage, Nov 1997

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• "Two Modes of MPLS Explicit Label Distribution Protocol", Yasuhiro Katsube, Yoshihiro Ohba, Ken-ichi Nagami, Sep 1997

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• "MTU Signalling Extensions for LDP", B. Black, Kireeti Kompella,

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CR-LDP (Constraint-Based Routed Label Distribution Protocol)

• "Constraint-Based LSP Setup using LDP", Billel Jamoussi, Editor, Jul 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-cr-ldp-04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-jamoussi-mpls-cr-ldp-00
• "Applicability Statement for CR-LDP", Jerry Ash, Muckai Girish, Eric Gray, Billel Jamoussi, G. Wright, Jul 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-crldp-applic-01, 00
was draft-jamoussi-mpls-crldp-applic-00
• "A Framework for Service Definition and Interworking Using CR-LDP", Osama Aboul-Magd, Billel Jamoussi, Oct 1999

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• "LSP Modification Using CR-LDP", Jerry Ash, Y. Lee, Peter Ashwood-Smith, Billel Jamoussi, D. Fedyk, D. Skaleki, L. Li, Oct 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-crlsp-modify-02, 01, 00,
was draft-ash-crlsp-modify-00
• "Soft Permanent LSPs for CR-LDP", Juha Heinanen, Feb 2000

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• "Improving Topology Data Base Accuracy with LSP Feedback via CR-LDP", Peter Ashwood-Smith, Billel Jamoussi, D. Fedyk, D. Skalecki, Jul 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-te-feed-01, 00,
was draft-ashw-mpls-te-feed-01, 00
• "Crankback Routing Extensions for MPLS Signaling", A. Iwata, N. Fujita, G.R. Ash, A. Farrel, Nov 2000

draft-iwata-mpls-crankback-00,
was draft-fujita-mpls-crldp-crankback-01, 00
• "Crankback Routing Extensions for MPLS Signaling with RSVP-TE", A. Iwata, N. Fujita, G.R. Ash, A. Farrel, Dec 2000

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• "CR-LDP Extensions for Interworking with RSVP-TE", G.Wright, S. Ballarte, T. Pearson, Mar 2000

draft-wright-mpls-crldp-rsvpte-iw-00,
was draft-wright-mpls-er-interwork-00
• "Signalling Unnumbered Links in CR-LDP", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, A. Kullberg, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-crldp-unnum-00,
was draft-kompella-mpls-crldp-unnum-00

ATM General

• "MPLS using LDP and ATM VC Switching", Bruce Davie, Jeremy Lawrence, Keith McCloghrie, Yakov Rekhter, Eric Rosen, George Swallow, Paul Doolan, Jan 2001

RFC3035, was draft-ietf-mpls-atm-04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-davie-mpls-atm-01, 00,
was draft-davie-tag-switching-atm-01, 00
• "Scalability Issues in Label Switching over ATM", Z. Wang, Grenville Armitage, Jul 1997

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• "MPLS Ships in the Night Operation with ATM", Billel Jamoussi, Nancy Feldman, Loa Andersson, Aug 1998

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• "VCID Notification over ATM link", Ken-ichi Nagami, N. Demizu, Hiroshi Esaki, Yasuhiro Katsube, Paul Doolan, Jan 2001

RFC3038, was draft-ietf-mpls-vcid-atm-05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-nagami-mpls-vcid-atm-00,
Pre(VCID): draft-demizu-mpls-vcid-01, 00, Pre(SVC): draft-demizu-mpls-atm-svc-00
• "The Assignment of the Information Field and Protocol Identifier in the Q.2941 Generic Identifier and Q.2957 User-to-user Signaling for the Internet Protocol", M. Suzuki, Jan 2001

RFC3033, was draft-ietf-mpls-git-uus-04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-suzuki-git-uus-assignment-02, 01, 00
• "VC Pool", N. Demizu, Ken-ichi Nagami, Paul Doolan, Hiroshi Esaki, Oct 1997

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was draft-demizu-vcpool-00.htm">
• "Double Identification Label Swapping (DILS) for Merged ATM Connections", G. Goren, I. Iliadis, P. Droz, Jul 1997 draft-droz-dils-arch-00
• "IP Address Resolution and ATM Signaling for MPLS over ATM SVC services", Hiroshi Esaki, Yasuhiro Katsube, Ken-ichi Nagami, Paul Doolan, Yakov Rekhter, Jun 1997

draft-katsube-mpls-over-svc-00,
was draft-esaki-mpls-over-svc-00
• "Performance Issues in VC-Merge Capable MPLS Switches", I. Widjaja, A. Elwalid, Sep 1999

RFC2682,
was draft-widjaja-mpls-vc-merge-01, 00

Optical MPL(ambda)S and Generalized MPLS

• "Some Comments on GMPLS and Optical Technologies", G. Bernstein, V. Sharma, Nov 2000

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• "Enhancements to GMPLS Signaling for Optical Technologies", B. Mack-Crane, V. Sharma, G. Bernstein, E. Mannie, Bala Rajagopalan, D. Saha, J. Connell, S. Chatterjee, M. Raftelis, Nov 2000

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• "Multi-Protocol Lambda Switching: Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control With Optical Crossconnects", Daniel O. Awduche, Yakov Rekhter, John Drake, R. Coltun, Jul 2000

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• "IP over Optical Networks - A Framework", Bala Rajagopalan, James Luciani, Daniel O. Awduche, B. Cain, Billel Jamoussi, D. Saha, Nov 2000

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was draft-ip-optical-framework-00
• "IP over Optical Networks: A Summary of Issues", N. Chandhok, A. Durresi, R. Jagannathan, Raj Jain, S. Seetharaman, K. Vinodkrishnan, Jul 2000

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• "Multi-protocol Lambda Switching: Issues in Combining MPLS Traffic Engineering Control With Optical Crossconnects", D. Basak, Daniel O. Awduche, John Drake, Yakov Rekhter, Feb 2000

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• "Control of Lightpaths in an Optical Network", S. Chaudhuri, G. Hjalmtysson, J. Yates, Feb 2000

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• "MPLS control plane for Switched Optical Networks", M. Krishnaswamy, G. Newsome, J. Gajewski, A. Rodriguez-Moral, S. Shew, M. Mayer, Feb 2000

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• "Control Mechanisms for Traffic Engineering in Optical Networks", J. Ho Hahm, K. Lee, M. Carson, Jul 2000

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• "Unique Features and Requirements for The Optical Layer Control Plane" A. Chiu, J. Strand, R. Tkach, Nov 2000

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• "Considerations on the development of an Optical Control Plane", D. Freeland, N. Harrison, S. Inglima, K. James, A. McGuire, S. Mirza, S. Ritchie, M. Robinson, A. Salman, P. Willis, Nov 2000

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• "Automatic Neighbor Discovery for Optical Network", H. Koay, Y. Xu, Nov 2000

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• "Carrier Needs Regarding Survivability and Maintenance for Switched Optical Networks", H. Ishimatsu, Y. Hayata, S. Yoneda, R. Bhandari, G. Newsome, Eve Varma, Nov 2000

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• "Requirements for OAM Functionality in MPLS", T. Theimer, J. Klink, Oct 1999

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• "Framework for MPLS-based Control of Optical SDH/SONET Networks", G. Bernstein, E. Mannie, V. Sharma, Nov 2000

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• "MPLS for SDH control", E. Mannie, Mar 2000

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• "SONET/SDH Circuit Emulation Service Over MPLS (CEM)", Andy Malis, K. Hsu, S. Vogelsang, J. Shirron, L. Martini, Nov 2000

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• "Handling BLSR with MPLS Traffic Engineering", S. Katukam, Jul 2000

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• "Requirements on the ASON UNI", M. Lazer, C. Brownmiller, Z.W. Lin, V. Poudyal, P. Walch, M. Jones, O. Duroyon, J.W. Kuo, Y. Cao, H. Ishimatsu, Y. Xue, Nov 2000

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• "Need for Aligning Signaling Parameters of Various Signaling Protocols", Z.W. Lin, H. Ishimatsu, O. Duroyon, J. Jones, C. Brownmiller, Nov 2000

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• "UNI and NNI Operations and Generic Parameters", Z.W. Lin, H. Ishimatsu, O. Duroyon, J. Jones, C. Brownmiller, November 2000

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• "Generalized MPLS Control Plane Architecture for Automatic Switched Transport Network", Y. Xu, Eve Varma, R. Nagarjan, Daniel O. Awduche, Y. Xue, C. Brownmiller, D. Papadimitriou, R. Hoebeke, J. Eaves, Osama Aboul-Magd, M. Mayer, H. Ishimatsu, Raj Jain, Nov 2000

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• "OSPF Extensions in Support of MPL(ambda)S", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, A. Banerjee, John Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, Jul 2000

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• "OSPF Extensions in Support of Generalized MPLS", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, A. Banerjee, John Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, Nov 2000

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• "IS-IS Extensions in Support of Generalized MPLS", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, A. Banerjee, John Drake, G. Bernstein, D. Fedyk, E. Mannie, D. Saha, V. Sharma, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-isis-gmpls-extensions-01, 00
was draft-kompella-isis-ompls-extensions-00
• "Extensions to IS-IS/OSPF and RSVP in support of MPL(ambda)S", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, Daniel O. Awduche, A. Hannan, G. Hjalmtysson, Jeremy Lawrence, S. Okamoto, D. Basak, G. Bernstein, John Drake, N. Margalit, E. Stern, Feb 2000

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• "Flooding optimizations in link-state routing protocols", A. Zinin, M. Shand, Oct 2000

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• "Extensions to OSPF/IS-IS for Optical Routing", G. Wang, D. Fedyk, V. Sharma, K. Owens, G.R. Ash, M. Krishnaswamy, Y. Cao, M.K. Girish, H.M. Ruck, S. Bernstein, P. Nguyen, S. Ahluwalia, L. Wang, A. Doria, H. Hummel, Mar 2000

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• "Network Engineering Extensions (NEXT) for OSPFv3", S. Giacalone, Jul 2000

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• "Hybrid Mesh-Ring Optical Networks and Their Routing Information Distribution Using Opaque LSA", D. Guo, J. Fu, L. Zhang, N. Ghani, Dec 2000

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• "Extensions to CR-LDP and RSVP-TE for Optical Path Set-up", Y. Fan, Peter Ashwood-Smith, V. Sharma, K. Owens, G.R. Ash, M. Krishnaswamy, Y. Cao, M.K. Girish, H.M. Ruck, S. Bernstein, P. Nguyen, S. Ahluwalia, H. Sjostrand, K. Eriksson, L. Wang, A. Doria, H. Hummel, Mar 2000

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• "Extensions to CR-LDP for Path Establishment in Optical Networks", Z.B. Tang, D. Saha, Bala Rajagopalan, Mar 2000

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• "RSVP Extensions in Support of OIF Optical UNI Signaling", John Yu, Fong Liaw, Eric Gray, John Drake, Jonathan Lang, A. Banerjee, G. Bernstein, Yakov Rekhter, George Swallow, Kireeti Kompella, R. Rennison, Y. Xu, D. Pendarakis, N. Komaee, Raj Jain, Z. Zhang, Nov 2000

draft-yu-mpls-rsvp-oif-uni-00,
was draft-gray-mpls-rsvp-oif-uni-ext-00
• "RSVP Extensions for Signaling Optical Paths", D. Saha, Bala Rajagopalan, B. Tang, Mar 2000

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• "Extensions to RSVP for optical networking", J.P. Lang, K. Mitra, John Drake, Mar 2000

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• "Extensions to RSVP-TE for Bi-directional Optical Path Setup", D. Guo, L. Zhang, J. Fu, R. Cheung, Jul 2000

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• "Routing Information Exchange in Optical Networks", D. Pendarakis, Bala Rajagopalan, D. Saha, Nov 2000

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• "Signaling Framework for Automated Provisioning and Restoration of Paths in Optical Mesh Networks", Bala Rajagopalan, D. Saha, B. Tang, K. Bala, Mar 2000

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• "Bandwidth Provisioning and Restoration Mechanisms in Optical Networks", J.H. Hahm, K. Lee, Dec 2000

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• "Optical Network-to-Network Interface Framework and Signaling Requirements", D. Papadimitriou, M. Fontana, G. Grammel, Yanguang Xu, Zhi-Wei Lin, S. Sankaranarayanan, Raj Jain, Yang Cao, Yong Xue, Nov 2000

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• "High Level Requirements for Optical Shared Mesh Restoration", R. Bhandari, S. Sankaranarayanan, Eve Varma, Nov 2000

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• "Lightpath attributes and related service definitions", L. McAdams, J. Yates, Mar 2000

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• "Performance Monitoring in Photonic Networks in support of MPL(ambda)S", L. Ceuppens, D. Blumenthal, John Drake, J. Chrostowski, W.L. Edwards, Mar 2000

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• "Link Management Protocol (LMP)", J.P. Lang, K. Mitra, John Drake, Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, Lou Berger, Bala Rajagopalan, D. Basak, H. Sandick, A. Zinin, A. Banerjee, Nov 2000

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was draft-lang-mpls-lmp-02, 01, 00
• "Link Management Protocol (LMP) for WDM Transmission Systems", Andre Fredette, E. Snyder, J. Shantigram, J. Lang, John Drake, G. Tumuluri, R. Goyal, S. Brorson, R. Krishnan, W. L. Edwards, Dec 2000

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• "Link Bundling Considerations in Optical Networks", Bala Rajagopalan, D. Saha, Oct 2000

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• "Calculation of protection paths and proxy interfaces in optical networks using OSPF", D. Dovolsky, I. Bryskin, Jun 2000

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• "Triggering and advertising lightpaths in an IP over optical network", O. Duroyon, R. Hoebeke, H.D. Neve, Jul 2000

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• "Signaling Requirements at the Optical UNI", O. S. Aboul-Magd, O. Aparicio, R. Barry, G. Bernstien, Raj Jain, L. Jia, R. Dulepet, M. Lazer, J. Yates, D. Pendarakis, Bala Rajagopalan, R. Rennison, Y. Xu, Y. Xue, J. Yu, Z. Zhang, Nov 2000

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• "LDP Extensions for Optical User Network Interface (O-UNI) Signaling", Osama Aboul-Magd, Raj Jain, L. Jia, Bala Rajagopalan, R. Rennison, Y. Xu, Z. Zhang, Oct 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-optical-uni-00,
was draft-aboulmagd-mpls-ldp-optical-uni-00
• "Generalized MPLS Signaling - CR-LDP Extensions", Peter Ashwood-Smith, A. Banerjee, Lou Berger, G. Bernstein, John Drake, Y. Fan, Kireeti Kompella, E. Mannie, J.P. Lang, Bala Rajagopalan, Yakov Rekhter, D. Saha, V. Sharma, George Swallow, Z.B. Tang, Nov 2000

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• "Generalized MPLS - Signaling Functional Description", Peter Ashwood-Smith, A. Banerjee, Lou Berger, G. Bernstein, John Drake, Y. Fan, Kireeti Kompella, E. Mannie, J.P. Lang, Bala Rajagopalan, Yakov Rekhter, D. Saha, V. Sharma, George Swallow, Z. Bo Tang, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-signaling-01, 00,
was draft-ashwood-generalized-mpls-signaling-00
• "Generalized MPLS Signaling - RSVP-TE Extensions", Peter Ashwood-Smith, A. Banerjee, Lou Berger, G. Bernstein, John Drake, Y. Fan, Kireeti Kompella, E. Mannie, J.P. Lang, Bala Rajagopalan, Yakov Rekhter, D. Saha, V. Sharma, George Swallow, Z.B. Tang, Nov 2000

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• "A Hybrid Data Transport Protocol for Optical Networks", P.K. Jha, Nov 2000

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• "Definitions of Managed Objects for the Optical Interface Type", M. Stewart, A. Huynh, K. Lam, Nov 2000

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• "Carrier Optical Services Framework and Associated UNI Requirements", Yong Xue, Daniel O. Awduche, M. Lazer, J. Strand, J. Yates, L. McAdams, O. Aparicio, R. Dottin, R. Aggarwal, Nov 2000

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Encapsulation

• "MPLS Label Stack Encoding", Eric Rosen, Yakov Rekhter, Dan Tappen, G. Fedorkow, Dino Farinacci, Tony Li, A. Conta, Jan 2001

RFC3032, was draft-ietf-mpls-label-encaps-08, 07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-rosen-tag-stack-03, 02, 01, 00
• "MPLS Label Stack Encapsulation in IP", Tom Worster, Yasuhiro Katsube, Andy Malis, R. Wilder, Aug 2000

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• "MPLS Label Stack Encapsulation in GRE", Yakov Rekhter, Dan Tappan, Eric Rosen, Jul 2000

draft-rekhter-mpls-over-gre-00
• "MPLS using LDP and ATM VC Switching", Bruce Davie, Jeremy Lawrence, Keith McCloghrie, Yakov Rekhter, Eric Rosen, George Swallow, Paul Doolan, Jan 2001

RFC3035, was draft-ietf-mpls-atm-04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-davie-mpls-atm-01, 00,
was draft-davie-tag-switching-atm-01, 00
• "MPLS using ATM VP Switching", Nancy Feldman, Billel Jamoussi, S. Komandur, Arun Viswanathan, Feb 1999

draft-feldman-mpls-atmvp-00
• "Use of Label Switching on Frame Relay Networks Specification", A. Conta, Paul Doolan, Andy Malis, Jan 2001

RFC3034, was draft-ietf-mpls-fr-06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-conta-mpls-fr-01, 00
• "MPLS/IP Header Compression", Lou Berger, J. Jeffords, Jul 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-hdr-comp-00,
was draft-berger-mpls-hdr-comp-00
• "MPLS/IP Header Compression over PPP", Lou Berger, J. Jeffords, Jul 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-hdr-comp-over-ppp-00,
was draft-berger-mpls-hdr-comp-over-ppp-00
• "Simple Header Compression", George Swallow, Lou Berger, Mar 2000

draft-swallow-mpls-simple-hdr-compress-00
• "Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Layer 2 Frames Over MPLS", L. Martini, N. El-Aawar, G. Heron, D.S. Vlachos, Dan Tappan, E.C. Rosen, S. Vogelsang, J. Shirron, A.G. Malis, Nov 2000

draft-martini-l2circuit-encap-mpls-00
• "Labels for MPLS over LAN Media", D. Bussiere, Hiroshi Esaki, A. Ghanwani, Shigeo Matsuzawa, J. W. Pace, Vijay Srinivasan, Aug 1997

draft-srinivasan-mpls-lans-label-00
• "Comparison of MPLS LAN Encapsulation Proposals", Eric Rosen, Andre Fredette, Tony Li, Keith McCloghrie, M. Mehhar, Nov 1997

draft-rosen-mpls-lan-encaps-compar-00
• "MPLS Label Stack Encoding on LAN Media", Eric Rosen, Yakov Rekhter, Dan Tappan, Dino Farinacci, G. Fedorkow, Tony Li, A. Conta, Nov 1997

draft-rosen-mpls-lan-encaps-00

Miscellaneous Other MPLS Proposals

• "Carrying Label Information in BGP-4", Yakov Rekhter, Eric Rosen, Jan 2001

draft-ietf-mpls-bgp4-mpls-05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-rekhter-bgp4-mpls-00
• "ICMP Extensions for MultiProtocol Label Switching", R. Bonica, Dan Tappan, D. Gan, Nov 2000

draft-bonica-icmp-mpls-02,
was draft-ietf-mpls-icmp-02, 01, 00,
was draft-bonica-icmp-mpls-01, 00
• "A Proposal to Incorporate ECN in MPLS", K. Ramakrishnan, S. Floyd, Bruce Davie, Jun 1999

draft-ietf-mpls-ecn-00
• "Using ECN to Signal Congestion Within an MPLS Domain", M. Shayman, R. Jaeger, Nov 2000

draft-shayman-mpls-ecn-00
• "Transport of Layer 2 Frames Over MPLS", L. Martini, N. El-Aawar, G. Heron, Dan Tappan, E.C. Rosen, S. Vogelsang, J. Shirron, A.G. Malis, D.S. Vlachos, Nov 2000

draft-martini-l2circuit-trans-mpls-04, 03, 02, 01, 00
• "Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 'L2TP' Multi-Protocol Label Switching Extension", P.R. Calhoun, K. Peirce, Mar 2000

draft-ietf-l2tpext-mpls-00,
was draft-ietf-pppext-l2tp-mpls-02, 01, 00
• "Multi-service over MPLS", B. St-Denis, D. Fedyk, A. Bhatnagar, A. Siddiqui, R. Hartani, T. So, Nov 2000

draft-stdenis-ms-over-mpls-00
• "Use of CR-LDP or RSVP-TE to Extend 802.1Q Virtual LANs across MPLS Networks", T. Senevirathne, P. Billinghurst, Oct 2000

draft-tsenevir-8021qmpls-01
• "Distribution of 802.1Q VLAN information using Opaque LSA", T. Senevirathne, P. Billinghurst, Oct 2000

draft-tsenevir-8021qospf-00

Multicast

• "Framework for IP Multicast in MPLS", D. Ooms, B. Sales, W. Livens, A. Acharya, F. Griffoul, F. Ansari, Dec 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-multicast-04, 01, 00
was draft-ooms-mpls-multicast-02, 01, 00
• "IP Multicast Support in MPLS Networks", A. Acharya, F. Griffoul, F. Ansari, Feb 1999

draft-acharya-ipsofacto-mpls-mcast-00
• "Partitioning Label Space among Multicast Routers on a Common Subnet", Dino Farinacci, Yakov Rekhter, Sep 1999,

draft-farinacci-multicast-label-part-01, 00
• "Using PIM to Distribute MPLS Labels for Multicast Routes", Dino Farinacci, Yakov Rekhter, Eric Rosen, T. Qian, Nov 2000

draft-farinacci-mpls-multicast-03, 02, 01, 00
• "MPLS for PIM-SM", D. Ooms, W. Livens, B. Sales, Nov 1998

draft-ooms-mpls-pimsm-00
• "Explicit Tree Routing", H. Hummel, S. Loke, Jun 1999

draft-hummel-mpls-explicit-tree-01, 00
• "Source Only Multicast", H. Hummel, Jun 2000

draft-hummel-pim-so-00
• "Source Specific Multicast", H. Hummel, Jun 2000

draft-hummel-ssm-00
• "Inter-Domain Multicast Forwarding (IDMF)", M. Jibiki, A. Iwata, Mar 2000

draft-jibiki-iwata-mboned-idmf-00
• "MSDP Specific Forwarding Extension for Inter-Domain Multicast Forwarding", M. Jibiki, A. Iwata, Nov 2000

draft-jibiki-iwata-msdp-idmf-01

Traffic Engineering

• "Requirements for Traffic Engineering Over MPLS" Daniel O. Awduche, J. Malcolm, J. Agogbua, M. O'Dell, J. McManus, Sep 1999

RFC2702 was draft-ietf-mpls-traffic-eng-01, 00,
was draft-awduche-mpls-traffic-eng-00
• "A Framework for Internet Traffic Engineering", Daniel O. Awduche, A. Chiu, A. Elwalid, I. Widjaja, X. Xiao, Jul 2000

draft-ietf-tewg-framework-02, 01, 00
• "Concept of IP Traffic Engineering", K. Takashima, K. Nakamichi, T. Soumiya, Oct 1999

draft-takashima-te-concept-00
• "Orchestrally conducted Traffic (OCT)", H. Hummel, Apr 2000

draft-hummel-te-oct-02, 01, 00
• "Framework for Traffic Management in MPLS Networks", P. Vaananen, R. Ravikanth, Mar 1998

draft-vaananen-mpls-tm-framework-00, ps
• "Quality of Service using Traffic Engineering over MPLS: An Analysis", P. Bhaniramka, W. Sun, Raj Jain, Mar 1999

draft-bhani-mpls-te-anal-00
• "Traffic Engineering of Load Distribution", S.Wright, R.Jaeger, F.Reichmeyer, Jul 2000

draft-wright-load-distribution-00
• "Metrics and Resource Classes for Traffic Engineering", D. Fedyk, A. Ghanwani, Oct 1999

draft-fedyk-mpls-te-metrics-00
• "Multiple Metrics for Traffic Engineering with IS-IS and OSPF", D. Fedyk, A. Ghanwani, R. Balay, Jerry Ash, A. Vedrenne, Nov 2000

draft-fedyk-isis-ospf-te-metrics-01, 00
• "The Notion of overbooking and Its Application to IP/MPLS Traffic Engineering", C.C. Chen, S. Hadvani, R. Izmailov, Nov 2000

draft-cchen-te-overbooking-00
• "Link Bundling in MPLS Traffic Engineering", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, Lou Berger, Nov 2000

draft-kompella-mpls-bundle-04, 03, 02, 01, 00
• "LSP hierarchy with MPLS TE", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, Sep 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-lsp-hierarchy-01, 00
was draft-kompella-lsp-hierarchy-00
• "IGP Requirements for Traffic Engineering with MPLS", Tony Li, George Swallow, Daniel O. Awduche, Feb 1999

draft-li-mpls-igp-te-00
• "MPLS Traffic Engineering Management Information Base Using SMIv2", C. Srinivasan, Arun Viswanathan, T.D. Nadeau, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-te-mib-05, 04, 03, 01, 00,
was draft-srinivasan-mpls-te-mib-01, 00
• "A Traffic Engineering MIB", Kireeti Kompella, Sep 2000

draft-ietf-tewg-mib-00,
was draft-kompella-mpls-te-mib-00
• "BGP-4 support for Traffic Engineering", B. Abarbanel, S. Venkatachalam, Jun 2000

draft-abarbanel-idr-bgp4-te-01, 00
• "A Framework for the LSP Setup Across IGP Areas for MPLS Traffic Engineering", S.K. Venkatachalam, S. Dharanikota, Nov 2000

draft-venkatachalam-interarea-mpls-te-01, 00
• "Calculating IGP routes over Traffic Engineering tunnels", N. Shen, H. Smit, Jun 1999

draft-hsmit-mpls-igp-spf-00
• "Distributed Constraints Exchangers", C-Y Lee, A. Celer, Nov 2000

draft-lee-mpls-te-exchange-00
• "Some Comments on the Use of MPLS Traffic Engineering for SONET/SDH Path Establishment", G. Bernstein, Mar 2000

draft-bernstein-mpls-sonet-00
• "Extensions to OSPF and IS-IS in support of MPLS for SDH/SONET Control">, E. Mannie, G. Bernstein, Jul 2000

draft-mannie-mpls-sdh-ospf-isis-00
• "Capacity Engineering of IP-based Networks with MPLS", W. Lai, Jul 2000

draft-wlai-tewg-cap-eng-01, 00
• "IGP-Independent Routing Support for Traffic Engineering", Bala Rajagopalan, Feb 1999

draft-rajagopalan-igpfree-te-00
• "Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF Summary LSA", N. Fujita, A. Iwata, Mar 2000

draft-fujita-ospf-te-summary-00
• "Traffic Engineering Extensions to OSPF", Dave Katz, D. Yeung, Sep 2000

draft-katz-yeung-ospf-traffic-03, 02, 01, 00
• "OSPF Extensions for Traffic Engineering", D.M. Yeung, Feb 1999

draft-yeung-ospf-traffic-00
• "OSPF Extensions to Support Inter-Area Traffic Engineering", S. Venkatachalam, B. Abarbanel, May 2000

draft-venkatachalam-ospf-traffic-00
• "OSPF, IS-IS, RSVP, CR-LDP Extensions to Support Inter-Area Traffic Engineering Using MPLS TE", S. Dharanikota, S.K. Venkatachalam, T. Nadeau, Nov 2000

draft-dharanikota-interarea-mpls-te-ext-01, 00
• "IS-IS extensions for Traffic Engineering", Tony Li, H. Smit, Sep 2000

draft-ietf-isis-traffic-02, 01
• "Network Survivability Considerations for Traffic Engineered IP Networks", K. Owens, V. Sharma, M. Oommen, Mar 2000

draft-owens-te-network-survivability-00
• "Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) FEC-To-NHLFE (FTN) Management Information Base Using SMIv2", T.D. Nadeau, C. Srinivasan, Arun Viswanathan, Sep 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-ftn-mib-00,
was draft-nadeau-mpls-packet-classifier-mib-01, 00
• "Traffic Engineering with Unnumbered Links", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, Sep 2000

draft-kompella-mpls-unnum-02, 01, 00
• "Notes on Path Computation in Constraint-Based Routing", Kireeti Kompella, Daniel O. Awduche

draft-kompella-te-pathcomp-00
• "Operational measurements for Traffic Engineering", B. Christian, Bruce Davies, H.Tse, Jul 2000

draft-christian-tewg-measurement-00
• "Level3 MPLS Protocol Architecture", V. Springer, C. Pierantozzi, J. Boyle, Aug 2000

draft-springer-te-level3bcp-00
• "Scored Fair Metric Calculation", S. Giacalone, Sep 2000

draft-giacalone-scored-fair-metric-routing-00
• "Multi-area MPLS Traffic Engineering", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, Nov 2000

draft-kompella-mpls-multiarea-te-00
• "Requirements for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", F.L. Faucheur, T.D. Nadeau, A. Chiu, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, M. Tatham, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-diff-te-reqts-00,
was draft-lefaucheur-diff-te-reqts-00
• "Extensions to IS-IS, OSPF, RSVP and CR-LDP for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", F.L. Faucheur, T.D. Nadeau, A. Chiu, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-diff-te-ext-00,
was draft-lefaucheur-diff-te-ext-00
• "Extensions to OSPF for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", F.L. Faucheur, T.D. Nadeau, A. Chiu, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, Nov 2000

draft-lefaucheur-diff-te-ospf-00
• "Extensions to ISIS for support of Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", F.L. Faucheur, T.D. Nadeau, A. Chiu, W. Townsend, D. Skalecki, Nov 2000

draft-lefaucheur-diff-te-isis-00
• "Requirements for Policy Enabled MPLS", S.Wright, S.Herzog, F.Reichmeyer, R. Jaeger, Mar 2000

draft-wright-policy-mpls-00
• "Policy-Based Load-Balancing in Traffic-Engineered MPLS Networks", S.Wright, F.Reichmeyer, R.Jaeger, M.Gibson, Jun 2000

draft-wright-mpls-te-policy-00
• "Policy Framework QoS Information Model for MPLS", K. Isoyama, M. Yoshida, M. Brunner, A. Kind, J. Quittek, Jul 2000

draft-isoyama-policy-mpls-info-model-00
• "Policy Information Model for MPLS Traffic Engineering", K. Isoyama, M. Brunner, M. Yoshida, J. Quittek, R. Chadha, G. Mykoniatis, A. Poylisher, R. Vaidyanathan, A. Kind, F. Reichmeyer, Dec 2000

draft-chadha-policy-mpls-te-01, 00
• "COPS Usage for MPLS/Traffic Engineering", F. Reichmeyer, S. Wright, M. Gibson, Jul 2000

draft-franr-mpls-cops-00
• "Engineering Paths for Multicast Traffic using MPLS", C-Y Lee, Loa Andersson, K. Carlberg, B. Akyol, Oct 1999

draft-leecy-multicast-te-01, 00
• "MPLS Multicast Traffic Engineering", Liwen Wu, Pierrick Cheval, D. Ooms, A. Mondrus, Jun 1999

draft-wu-mpls-multicast-te-00
• "Traffic Engineering & QoS Methods for IP-, ATM-, & TDM-Based Multiservice Networks", G.R. Ash, Jul 2000

draft-ietf-tewg-qos-routing-00,
was draft-ash-te-qos-routing-01, 00

QoS

• "QoS Resource Management in MPLS-Based Networks", G. Ash, Billel Jamoussi, Y. Lee, Osama Aboul-Magd, Feb 1999

draft-ash-qos-routing-00
• "UNITE: An Architecture for Lightweight Signaling", K. Ramakrishnan, G. Hjalmtysson, K. Merwe, F. Bonomi, S. Kumar, M. Wong, Aug 1998

draft-ramakrishnan-mpls-unite-00
• "An Extended QoS Architecture Supporting Differentiated Resilience Requirements of IP Services", A. Kirstaedter, A. Autenrieth, Jul 2000

draft-kirstaedter-extqosarch-00
• "Routing Guidelines for Efficient Routing Methods", G. Ash, Oct 1999

draft-ash-itu-sg2-routing-guidelines-00
• "Routing of Multimedia Connections when Interworking with PSTN, ATM, and IP Networks", G. Ash, Y. Lee, Oct 1999

draft-ash-itu-sg2-qos-routing-02, 01, 00
• "The management of MPLS LSPs for scalable QoS Service Provision", M. Gibson, Mar 2000

draft-gibson-manage-mpls-qos-01, 00
• "Additional OSPF Extensions for Traffic Engineering and QoS Routing", W. Wimer, Feb 1999

draft-wimer-ospf-traffic-00

Path Protection

• "Protection/Restoration of MPLS Networks", S. Makam, V. Sharma, K. Owens, C. Huang, Oct 1999

draft-makam-mpls-protection-00
• "A Path Protection/Restoration Mechanism for MPLS Networks", K. Owens, S. Makam, V. Sharma, B. Mack-Crane, C. Huang, Nov 2000

draft-chang-mpls-path-protection-02, 01, 00
• "Extensions to CRLDP for MPLS Path Protection", K. Owens, S. Makam, V. Sharma, C. Huang, B. Akyol, Nov 2000

draft-owens-crldp-path-protection-ext-00
• "Extensions to RSVP-TE for MPLS Path Protection", V. Sharma, S. Makam, K. Owens, B. Mack-Crane, C. Huang, B Akyol, Nov 2000

draft-chang-mpls-rsvpte-path-protection-ext-01, 00
• "General Considerations for Bandwidth Reservation in Protection", L. Mo, Jul 2000

draft-mo-mpls-protection-00
• "A Method for Setting an Alternative Label Switched Paths to Handle Fast Reroute", D. Haskin, R. Krishnan, Nov 2000

draft-haskin-mpls-fast-reroute-05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00
• "Framework for MPLS-Based Recovery", V. Sharma, B.M. Crane, S. Makam, K. Owens, C. Huang, F. Hellstrand, J. Weil, Loa Andersson, Billel Jamoussi, B. Cain, S. Civanlar, A. Chiu, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-recovery-frmwrk-01, 00
was draft-makam-mpls-recovery-frmwrk-01, 00
• "Requirement Framework for Fast Re-route with MPLS", Loa Andersson, B. Cain, Billel Jamoussi, Oct 1999

draft-andersson-reroute-frmwrk-00
• "Extensions to CR-LDP and RSVP-TE for setup of pre-established recovery tunnels", F. Hellstrand, Loa Andersson, Nov 2000

draft-hellstrand-mpls-recovery-merge-01, 00
• "Fast Restoration of MPLS Label Switched Paths", S. Shew, Oct 1999

draft-shew-lsp-restoration-00
• "Shared backup Label Switched Path restoration", S. Kini, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, C. Villamizar, Oct 2000

draft-kini-restoration-shared-backup-00
• "Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) protocol extensions for Label Switched Path restoration", S. Kini, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, C. Villamizar, Oct 2000

draft-kini-ospf-lsp-restoration-00
• "Intermediate System to Intermediate System (IS-IS) protocol extensions for Label Switched Path restoration", S. Kini, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, C. Villamizar, Oct 2000

draft-kini-isis-lsp-restoration-00
• "ReSerVation Protocol with Traffic Engineering extensions. Extension for Label Switched Path restoration", S. Kini, M. Kodialam, T.V. Lakshman, C. Villamizar, Oct 2000

draft-kini-rsvp-lsp-restoration-00
• "Calculation of protection paths and proxy interfaces in optical networks using OSPF", D. Dovolsky, I. Bryskin, Jun 2000

draft-dovolsky-bryskin-ospf-pathprotect-proxy-00

RSVP Extensions for MPLS

• "Extensions to RSVP for LSP Tunnels", Daniel O. Awduche, Lou Berger, D. Gan, Tony Li, Vijay Srinivasan, George Swallow, Aug 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-lsp-tunnel-07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-swallow-mpls-rsvp-trafeng-00
• "Applicability Statement for Extensions to RSVP for LSP-Tunnels", Daniel O. Awduche, A. Hannan, X. Xiao, Apr 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-tunnel-applicability-01, 00,
was draft-awduche-mpls-rsvp-tunnel-applicability-01, 00
• "RSVP Label Allocation for Backup Tunnels", R. Goguen, George Swallow, Nov 2000

draft-swallow-rsvp-bypass-label-01, 00
• "RSVP Hierarchical Summary Refresh", George Swallow, Oct 1999

draft-swallow-rsvp-hierarchical-refresh-00
• "RSVP Refresh Reduction Extensions", Lou Berger, Der-Hwa Gan, George Swallow, P. Pan, F. Tommasi, S. Molendini, Jun 2000

draft-ietf-rsvp-refresh-reduct-05, 04, 03, 02, 01
• "RSVP Refresh Overhead Reduction by State Compression" L. Wang, A. Terzis, L. Zhang, Mar 2000

draft-ietf-rsvp-state-compression-03,
was draft-wang-rsvp-state-compression-02, 01, 00
• "Extensions to RSVP to Handle Establishment of Alternate Label-Switched Paths for Fast Re-route", R. Krishnan, D. Haskin, Jun 1999

draft-krishnan-mpls-reroute-rsvpext-01, 00
• "MPLS Using RSVP and ATM VC Switching", W. Wimer, Jun 1999

draft-wimer-mpls-atm-rsvp-00
• "Use of Label Switching With RSVP", Bruce Davie, Yakov Rekhter, Eric Rosen, Arun Viswanathan, Vijay Srinivasan, S. Blake, Mar 1998

draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-00,
Previously Cisco's: draft-davie-mpls-rsvp-01, 00,
And IBM's: draft-viswanathan-mpls-rsvp-00,
which was draft-viswanathan-aris-rsvp-00
• "Explicit Route Support in MPLS", Bruce Davie, Tony Li, Eric Rosen, Yakov Rekhter, Nov 1997

draft-davie-mpls-explicit-routes-00
• "BGRP: A Framework for Scalable Resource Reservation", P. Pan, E. Hahne, H. Schulzrinne, Jan 2000

draft-pan-bgrp-framework-00
• "Signalling Unnumbered Links in RSVP-TE", Kireeti Kompella, Yakov Rekhter, Nov 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-rsvp-unnum-00,
was draft-kompella-mpls-rsvp-unnum-00

Differentiated Services Support

• "Differentiated Services in MPLS Networks", Juha Heinanen, Jun 1999

draft-heinanen-diffserv-mpls-00
• "MPLS Support of Differentiated Services", F. Faucheur, Liwen Wu, Bruce Davie, S. Davari, P. Vaananen, R. Krishnan, Pierrick Cheval, Juha Heinanen, Aug 2000

draft-ietf-mpls-diff-ext-07, 06, 05, 04, 03, 02, 01, 00,
was draft-wu-mpls-diff-ext-01, 00
• "MPLS Support of Differentiated Services over PPP links", F. Faucheur, S. Davari, R. Krishnan, P. Vaananen, Bruce Davie, Jun 1999

draft-lefaucheur-mpls-diff-ppp-00,
was draft-davari-mpls-diff-ppp-00
• "Provider Architecture for Differentiated Services and Traffic Engineering (PASTE)", Tony Li, Yakov Rekhter, Oct 1998

RFC2430, was draft-li-paste-00
• "MATE: MPLS Adaptive Traffic Engineering", I. Widjaja, A. Elwalid, Oct 1999

draft-widjaja-mpls-mate-01, 00
• "A Framework for Service Differentiation in MPLS Networks", P. Vaananen, Mar 2000

draft-vaananen-mpls-svc-diff-framework-00

VPN

• "Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture", K. Muthukrishnan, Andy Malis, Sep 2000

RFC2917, was draft-muthukrishnan-mpls-corevpn-arch-03, 02, 01, 00
was draft-muthukrishnan-corevpn-arch-00
• "A Core MPLS IP VPN Architecture", K. Muthukrishnan, C. Kathirvelu, Andy Malis, F. Ammann, J.M. Xiao, J. Sumimoto, Nov 2000

draft-muthukrishnan-rfc2917bis-00
• "MPLS VPN Architecture", D. Jamieson, Billel Jamoussi, G. Wright, P. Beaubien, Aug 1998

draft-jamieson-mpls-vpn-00
• "VPN support with MPLS", Juha Heinanen, Eric Rosen, Mar 1998

draft-heinanen-mpls-vpn-01, 00
• "MPLS Mappings of Generic VPN Mechanisms", Juha Heinanen, Bryan Gleeson, Aug 1998

draft-heinanen-generic-vpn-mpls-00
• "IP VPN Realization using MPLS Tunnels", L. Casey, I. Cunningham, R. Eros, Nov 1998

draft-casey-vpn-mpls-00
• "CPE based VPNs using MPLS", Tony Li, Oct 1998

draft-li-mpls-vpn-00
• "MPLS VPN Interworking", J. Sumimoto, M. Suzuki, O. Tabata, A. Iwata, Y. Ezaki, M. Doukai, Feb 2000

draft-sumimoto-mpls-vpn-interworking-00
• "Extensions to CR-LDP for VPNs", P. Houlik, Z. Zhang, S. Balaji, Mar 2000

draft-zhang-crldp-ext-for-vpn-00
• "BGP/MPLS VPNs", E.C. Rosen, Yakov Rekhter, T. Bogovic, R. Vaidyanathan, S.J. Brannon, M.J. Morrow, M. Carugi, C.J. Chase, T.W. Chung, J.D. Clercq, E. Dean, P. Hitchin, A. Smith, M. Leelanivas, D. Marshall, L. Martini, Vijay Srinivasan, A. Vedrenne, Jul 2000

draft-rosen-rfc2547bis-02, 01, 00
• "BGP/MPLS VPNs", Eric Rosen, Yakov Rekhter, Mar 1999

RFC2547, was draft-rosen-vpn-mpls-01, 00
• "BGP-MPLS VPN extension for IPv6 VPN over an IPv4 infrastructure", T.T. Nguyen, G. Gastaud, D. Ooms, J.D. Clercq, Oct 2000

draft-nguyen-bgp-ipv6-vpn-00
• "Multicast in MPLS/BGP VPNs", E.C. Rosen, Y. Cai, Yakov Rekhter, Dan Tappan, I. Wijnands, Dino Farinacci, Nov 2000

draft-rosen-vpn-mcast-00
• "OSPF as the PE/CE Protocol in BGP/MPLS VPNs", E.C. Rosen, Jul 2000

draft-rosen-vpns-ospf-bgp-mpls-00
• "BGP/VPN: VPN Information Discovery for Network-based VPNs", H. Ould-Brahim, G. Wright, Bryan Gleeson, Jul 2000

draft-ouldbrahim-bgp-vpn-00
• "MPLS-based Layer 2 VPNs", Kireeti Kompella, M. Leelanivas, Q. Vohra, J. Achirica, R. Bonica, C. Liljenstolpe, E. Metz, C. Sargor, Vijay Srinivasan, Nov 2000

draft-kompella-mpls-l2vpn-02, 01, 00
• "MPLS/BGP Virtual Private Network Management Information Base Using SMIv2", T.D. Nadeau, L. Fang, S.J. Brannon, F.M. Chiussi, J. Dube, Nov 2000

draft-nadeau-mpls-vpn-mib-00
• "BGP/IPsec VPN", J.D. Clercq, Y. T'Joens, P. De Schrijver, Jul 2000

draft-declercq-bgp-ipsec-vpn-00
• "A Framework for Network-based VPNs", M. Suzuki and J. Sumimoto, Andy Malis, K. Muthukrishnan, Nov 2000

draft-suzuki-nbvpn-framework-02, 01, 00
• "Outline for A Framework for Network Based Virtual Private Networks", Ross Callon, Bryan Gleeson, Eric Rosen, C. Sargor, J. Yu, Oct 2000

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• "Network based IP VPN Architecture Using Virtual Routers", H. Ould-Brahim, Bryan Gleeson, G. Wright, T. Sloane, R. Bach, R. Bubenik, A. Young, J. Yu, C. Sargor, Nov 2000

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• "A Framework for IP Based Virtual Private Networks", Bryan Gleeson, A. Lin, Juha Heinanen, Grenville Armitage, Andy Malis, Nov 1999

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• "Interworking between IP VPN and shared backbone multicast domains", A. Celer, Dec 2000

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• "Using BGP as an Auto-Discovery Mechanism for Network-based VPNs", H. Ould-Brahim, Bryan Gleeson, Peter Ashwood-Smith, E.C. Rosen, Yakov Rekhter, Nov 2000

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• "Criteria for Evaluating VPN Implementation Mechanisms", J. Yu, L. Jou, A. Matthews, Vijay Srinivasan, Jul 2000

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Voice over MPLS

• "Voice over MPLS Framework", A. Kankkunen, G. Ash, A. Chiu, J. Hopkins, J. Jeffords, Francois Le Faucheur, B. Rosen, D. Stacey, A. Yelundur, Lou Berger, Jul 2000

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• "Bearer Control for VoIP and VoMPLS Control Plane", F.L. Faucheur, B. Thompson, A. Chiu, Mar 2000

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• "Tunneling Multiplexed Compressed RTP in MPLS", T. Theimer, Jun 2000

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Ipsilon's IP Switching,

Specifications

• "Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 2.0", Peter Newman, W. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, Fong Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, Greg Minshall, Mar 1998

RFC2297, was draft-rfced-info-newman-00
• "Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 1.1", Peter Newman, W. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, Fong Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, Greg Minshall, Aug 1996

RFC1987
• "Transmission of Flow Labelled IPv4 on ATM Data Links Ipsilon Version 1.0", Peter Newman, W.L. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, Fong Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, Greg Minshall, May 1996

RFC1954
• "Ipsilon Flow Management Protocol Specification for IPv4 Version 1.0", Peter Newman, W.L. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, Fong Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, Greg Minshall, May 1996

RFC1953
• "Ipsilon's General Switch Management Protocol Specification Version 2.0", Peter Newman, W. Edwards, R. Hinden, E. Hoffman, Fong Ching Liaw, T. Lyon, Greg Minshall, Feb 1998

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Toshiba's Cell Switch Router

Specifications

• "Toshiba's Flow Attribute Notification Protocol (FANP) Specification", Ken-ichi Nagami, Yasuhiro Katsube, Yasuro Shobatake, Akiyoshi Mogi, Shigeo Matsuzawa, Tatsuya Jinmei, Hiroshi Esaki, Apr 1997

RFC2129, was draft-rfced-info-nagami-00,
was draft-rfced-info-fanp-00
• "Toshiba's Router Architecture Extensions for ATM : Overview", Yasuhiro Katsube, Ken-ichi Nagami, Hiroshi Esaki, Feb 1997

RFC2098, was draft-katsube-router-atm-overview-02,
was draft-rfced-info-katsube-00
• "Cell Switch Router - Architecture and Protocol Overview", Yasuhiro Katsube, Ken-ichi Nagami, Yoshihiro Ohba, Shigeo Matsuzawa, Hiroshi Esaki, Dec 1997

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• "Flow Attribute Notification Protocol Version 2 (FANPv2) Neighbor Discovery", Ken-ichi Nagami, Koutarou Ise, Shigeo Matsuzawa, Akiyoshi Mogi, Yoshihiro Ohba, Dec 1997

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• "Flow Attribute Notification Protocol Version 2 (FANPv2) Distributed Control Mode", Ken-ichi Nagami, Yasuhiro Katsube, Shigeo Matsuzawa, Akiyoshi Mogi, Koutarou Ise, Dec 1997

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• "Flow Attribute Notification Protocol Version 2 (FANPv2) Ingress Control Mode", Yoshihiro Ohba, J. Takahashi, Shigeo Matsuzawa, Yasuhiro Katsube, Dec 1997

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• "Comparison of Tag Switching and Cell Switch Router", Yoshihiro Ohba, Hiroshi Esaki, Yasuhiro Katsube, Apr 1997

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• "Interoperation Between Distinct Types of Label Switched Paths", Yasuhiro Katsube, Hiroshi Esaki, Jun 1997

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• "Mapping of IP Flow to Datalink Layer Connection", Yasuhiro Katsube, Ken-ichi Nagami, May 1995

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• "Conventional IP over ATM", Masataka Ohta, Hiroshi Esaki, Ken-ichi Nagami, Mar 1995

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• "Router Architecture Extensions for ATM : Overview", Yasuhiro Katsube, Ken-ichi Nagami, Hiroshi Esaki, Mar 1995

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• "Connection Oriented and Connectionless IP Forwarding over ATM Networks", Hiroshi Esaki, Masataka Ohta, Ken-ichi Nagami, Oct 1994

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Cisco'sTag Switching

Specifications

• "Cisco Systems' Tag Switching Architecture Overview", Yakov Rekhter, Bruce Davie, Dave Katz, Eric Rosen, George Swallow, Feb 1997

RFC2105, was draft-rfced-info-rekhter-00
• "Multicast Tag Binding and Distribution using PIM", Dino Farinacci, Y Rekhter, Nov 1998

draft-farinacci-multicast-tagsw-01, 00
• "Tag Switching Architecture - Overview", Yakov Rekhter, Bruce Davie, Dave Katz, Eric Rosen, George Swallow, Dino Farinacci, Jul 1997

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• "Tag Distribution Protocol", Paul Doolan, Bruce Davie, Dave Katz, Yakov Rekhter, Eric Rosen, May 1997

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• "Tag Switching Support for Classes of Service", A. Lin, Bruce Davie, Fred Baker, Dec 1996

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• "Partitioning Tag Space amoung Multicast Routers on a Common Subnet", Dino Farinacci, Dec 1996

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• "Tag Switching with RSVP", Fred Baker, Yakov Rekhter, December 1996

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• "Use of Flow Label for Tag Switching", Fred Baker et. al., Oct 1996

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IBM's Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching

Specifications

• "ARIS: Aggregate Route-Based IP Switching", Arun Viswanathan, Nancy Feldman, R. Boivie, R. Woundy, Mar 1997

draft-viswanathan-aris-overview-00,
was draft-woundy-aris-ipswitching-00
• "ARIS Specification", Nancy Feldman, Arun Viswanathan, Mar 1997

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• "ARIS Support for LAN Media Switching", S. Blake, A. Ghanwani, W. Pace, Vijay Srinivasan, Mar 1997

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Books

• Bruce Davie, Yakov Rekhter,

"MPLS: Technology and Applications",
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1-55860-656-4, May 2000 (300 pages)
• Christopher Y. Metz, "IP Switching : Protocols and Architecture", McGraw-Hill Companies, 464 pages, ISBN 0070419531, Oct 1998
• Bruce Davie, Paul Doolan, Yakov Rekhter,

"Switching in IP Networks: IP Switching, Tag Switching, and Related Technologies",
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., ISBN 1-55860-505-3, $44.95, May 1998 (272 pages)
• Eric W Gray,

"MPLS: Implementing the Technology",
Addison-Wesley ISBN 0-201-65762-7, March 2001
For the online version, click here .

Simulators and Test Products

Simulation

• NPAT Network Analysis and Planning Tools (WANDL)
• MNS - MPLS Network Simulator by Gaeil Ahn fogi@comeng.chungnam.ac.kr
• nsnam includes MNS code.

Testing

• LDPTest 200 and RSVPTest 100 (Digital Technology)

Available Implementation Sources

• NIST Switch (RSVP-TE)(FreeBSD, Linux)
• MPLS for Linux (LDP)(Linux)
• University of Cambridge (Linux)
• Data Connection Portable MPLS Products (Data Connection)
• FutureMPLS (Future Software)
• MPLS-LTCS - Label Traffic Control System (NetPlane)
• MPLS (Inverness Systems)