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Requirements for Adding Optical Support to the General Switch Management Protocol version 3 (GSMPv3)

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Network Working Group                                        H. Khosravi
Request for Comments: 3604                                         Intel
Category: Informational                                      G. Kullgren
                                                                 S. Shew
                                                         Nortel Networks
                                                               J. Sadler
                                                                 Tellabs
                                                             A. Watanabe
                                                                     NTT
                                                            October 2003


               Requirements for Adding Optical Support to
       the General Switch Management Protocol version 3 (GSMPv3)

Status of this Memo

   This memo provides information for the Internet community.  It does
   not specify an Internet standard of any kind.  Distribution of this
   memo is unlimited.

Copyright Notice

   Copyright (C) The Internet Society (2003).  All Rights Reserved.

Abstract

   This memo provides requirements for adding optical switching support
   to the General Switch Management Protocol (GSMP).  It also contains
   clarifications and suggested changes to the GSMPv3 specification.

Conventions used in this document

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in BCP 14, RFC 2119 [1].

1.  Overview

   This document details the changes to GSMP necessary for the support
   of optical (non-transparent and all optical), SONET/SDH, and spatial
   switching of IP packets, Layer 2 (L2) frames and TDM data.  When
   implemented, GSMP controllers will then be able to control: photonic
   cross-connects (optical-optical), transparent optical cross connects
   (optical-electrical-optical, frame independent), opaque cross
   connects (optical-electrical-optical, SONET/SDH frames), and





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