MFA Forum Liaison Report

Matthew Bocci
February 2006

The MFA Forum met 29th Jan - 4th Feb in San Jose, California

Currently Active Technical Committee work items

Applications and Deployment Working Group

• MPLS UNI with RSVP-TE signalling: Currently a baseline text.

• MPLS Proxy Admission Control: Baseline text, currently being updated to use RSVP-TE based UNI

• Control Plane Interworking:
  • ATM and Frame Relay to MPLS Control Plane Interworking : Client/Server
  • The use of Virtual Trunks for ATM/MPLS Control Plane Interworking

  These are both at final ballot. The MFA is looking for 2 code points for FEC 129 AII types for client/server interworking. The IETF PWE3 WG should expect a liaison on this.

• L2 Mediation (no contribution to this meeting)

• MPLS ICI: Currently a baseline text.

Interworking and Frame relay Working group

• Performance Monitoring across multi-service networks. Currently a baseline text.

• ATM-FR Service interworking over MPLS: Sent for straw ballot

• Ethernet Interworking over MPLS: In final ballot

• Fault Management for Multiservice Interworking: In final ballot.

ATM Architecture Working group

• Virtual Trunks across ATM Core Networks: sent for straw ballot.

ATM Control Signalling Working group

• High Probability of Call Completion: Sent for straw ballot.

Documents sent for Straw Ballot at this meeting

• Multiservice Interworking: Frame Relay and ATM Service Interworking Over MPLS

• Virtual Trunks Across ATM Core Networks

• High Probability of Completion - HPOC Version 1.0

Documents sent for Final Ballot at this meeting

None

Next meeting

April 3-6, 2006, Berlin, Germany

For further details, please see http://www.mfaforum.org

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