Carrier Optical Services Requirements

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• Carrier Optical Services Requirements
• (draft-ietf-ipo-carrier-requirements-04.txt)
• Yong Xue and Ananth Nagarajan
• 55th IETF, Atlanta, November 21, 2002

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Purpose

• Describes carriers optical service requirements
  for Automatically Switched Optical Networks
  (ASON)
• Describes service building blocks and
  service-related control plane requirements from
  carriers and end-users perspective

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Brief Document History

• Based on the initial Carrier Optical Service
  Framework and Requirements work from OIF.
• Presented at 49th and 50th IETF and accepted as
  WG item after consolidation with other related
  drafts
• Published the first version (draft-ietf-ipo-carrie
  r-requirements-00.txt) at 51st IETF meeting in
  London
• Major edits and improved readability in 01
  version after 52nd IETF (Salt Lake City)
• Minor editorial changes since then. Current
  version is 04.

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Design Team

• Updated Author List
• WorldCom Yong Xue (Editor)
• ATT Monica Lazer, Jennifer Yates, Dongmei Wang
• CW Olga Aparicio
• Sprint Ananth Nagarajan
• Japan Telecom Hirokazu Ishimatsu
• BellSouth Steve Wright

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Whats the Plan?

• Will be ready for WG last call after fixing minor
  nits (references, formatting, author list etc.)
  immediately after this meeting.
• Issues very little or no feedback obtained on
  various revisions.

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QA

• Thank You.