{"draft":"draft-ietf-ccamp-lsp-hierarchy-bis-08","doc_id":"RFC6107","title":"Procedures for Dynamically Signaled Hierarchical Label Switched Paths","authors":["K. Shiomoto, Ed.","A. Farrel, Ed."],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"30","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Common Control and Measurement Plane","abstract":"Label Switched Paths (LSPs) set up in Multiprotocol Label Switching\r\n(MPLS) or Generalized MPLS (GMPLS) networks can be used to form links\r\nto carry traffic in those networks or in other (client) networks.\r\n\r\nProtocol mechanisms already exist to facilitate the establishment of\r\nsuch LSPs and to bundle traffic engineering (TE) links to reduce the load on\r\nrouting protocols.  This document defines extensions to those mechanisms to\r\nsupport identifying the use to which such LSPs are to be put and to\r\nenable the TE link endpoints to be assigned addresses or unnumbered\r\nidentifiers during the signaling process.  [STANDARDS-TRACK]","pub_date":"February 2011","keywords":["[--------]","TE links","Bundled links","GMPLS","dynamically provisioned networks"],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC3477","RFC4206"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC6107","errata_url":"https:\/\/www.rfc-editor.org\/errata\/rfc6107"}