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

https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-221_Issue-1.pdf
See Appendix F

And 

https://www.broadband-forum.org/technical/download/TR-224.pdf
Section 13

Not sure these give the detail needed but they seem to address the same topic as the draft.

Dave


> On Nov 21, 2019, at 4:07 PM, Stewart Bryant <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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, [email protected] wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
>> 
>> 
>>       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/
>> 
>> There are also htmlized versions available at:
>> https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-cheng-pals-p2p-pw-multicast-01
>> 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
>> 
>> 
>> Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of submission
>> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
>> 
>> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
>> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
>> 
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