RE: [pim] New PIM Charter and milestones

["John Meylor \(jmeylor\)" <jmeylor at cisco.com>]

Yakov,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yakov Rekhter [mailto:yakov at juniper.net] 
> Sent: Monday, January 29, 2007 8:18 AM
> To: John Meylor (jmeylor)
> Cc: Rahul Aggarwal; Michael McBride (mmcbride); pim at ietf.org
> Subject: Re: [pim] New PIM Charter and milestones 
> 
> John,
> 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Rahul Aggarwal [mailto:rahul at juniper.net]
> > > Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2007 11:36 AM
> > > To: Michael McBride (mmcbride)
> > > Cc: pim at ietf.org
> > > Subject: Re: [pim] New PIM Charter and milestones
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Hi Mike,
> > > 
> > > Please see below:
> > > 
> > > On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Mike McBride wrote:
> > > 
> > > > Here is a second pass at pimwg rechartering text. 
> Please review. I 
> > > > added a 'may' with BSR which 'may' satisfy Lenny's 
> previous concern.
> > > >
> > > > Description of Working Group:
> > > >
> > > > The Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) Working Group has 
> > > > completed the standardization of PIM with RFC 4601. The WG has 
> > > > determined there is additional work to be accomplished and is 
> > > > chartered to standardize extensions to RFC 4601 - Protocol 
> > > > Independent Multicast Version 2 - Sparse Mode. These PIM 
> > > > extensions could involve multipoint label switching,
> > > 
> > > "multipoint label switching" is within the charter of the 
> MPLS WG. 
> > > This shouldn't be a charter item in the PIM WG.
> > 
> > PIM WG should address any/all pim enhancement work necessary to 
> > support ongoing multipoint label switching
> 
> To support multipoint label switching *no* PIM enhancement 
> work is necessary. This is because multipoint label switching 
> is supported with either RSVP-TE, or with mLDP, and neither 
> of these require any PIM enhancement work.

PIM WG should consider implication of VPN service on PIM whether its
a component of that service (as in widely deployed mVPN GRE solution
described in L3VPN drafts) or whether it interfaces with that service
at VPN edge (as it can with multipoint label switched solutions)

 john


>   
> Yakov.
> 

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