Internet Draft Bala Rajagopalan Document: Tellium, Inc. This draft expires on March, 8, 2001 MPLampS: Electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane) Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026 [1]. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet- Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt. The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. 1. Abstract Mostly Pointless Lamp Switching (MPLampS) is an architecture for carrying electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane). MPLampS has the potential to dramatically lower the price, ease the distribution and usage, and improve manageability of delivering electricity. This draft is motivated by such drafts as SONET/SDH over IP/MPLS [2,3] (with apologies to their authors). Readers of the previous drafts have been observed scratching their heads and muttering, "What next?". This draft answers that question. This draft has also been written as a public service. It was recently announced that the routing area will consider work items of the form "foo-over-MPLS". There are possibly many who are wondering how to exploit this opportunity and write random drafts to achieve prominence in the MPLS area. This draft illustrates the key ingredients that go into producing any "foo-over-MPLS" draft and may be used as a template for all such work. Rajagopalan Expires on 3/8/01 1 draft-bala-MPLampS-00.txt 2. Conventions used in this document The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "DO", "DONÆT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", "MAY BE" and "OPTIONAL" in this document do not mean anything. 3. Pre-requisite for reading this document