Updates from Version 00 Added a new contributor to the author list Expanded on the motivation of the new proposed status bit and explained why the already defined operational status bits are not sufficient Added a separate definition of the active and standby PW states for the Independent mode and for the Active/Standby Mode Enforced the rule that an endpoint MUST not forward user packets over a PW which is in standby mode Removed the option to send the 'PW not forwarding' status bit In Master/Slave mode if the slave could not unblock the PW Added an applicability and backward compatibility section Removed reference to the LDP specification in the security section which now refers to RFC 4447 only |