--- 1/draft-ietf-mpls-loop-prevention-02.txt 2006-02-05 00:40:59.000000000 +0100 +++ 2/draft-ietf-mpls-loop-prevention-03.txt 2006-02-05 00:40:59.000000000 +0100 @@ -1,25 +1,26 @@ + Network Working Group Yoshihiro Ohba Internet-Draft Yasuhiro Katsube -Expiration Date: April 2000 Toshiba +Expiration Date: October 2000 Toshiba Eric Rosen Cisco Systems Paul Doolan Ennovate Networks - October 1999 + April 2000 MPLS Loop Prevention Mechanism - + Status of this Memo This document is an Internet-Draft and is in full conformance with all provisions of Section 10 of RFC2026. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet- Drafts. @@ -28,23 +29,20 @@ months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. It is inappropriate to use Internet-Drafts as reference material or to cite them other than as "work in progress." The list of current Internet-Drafts can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-abstracts.txt The list of Internet-Draft Shadow Directories can be accessed at http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. - To view the list Internet-Draft Shadow Directories, see - http://www.ietf.org/shadow.html. - Abstract This paper presents a simple mechanism, based on "threads", which can be used to prevent MPLS from setting up label switched path (LSPs) which have loops. The mechanism is compatible with, but does not require, VC merge. The mechanism can be used with either the ordered downstream-on-demand allocation or ordered downstream allocation. The amount of information that must be passed in a protocol message is tightly bounded (i.e., no path-vector is used). When a node needs to change its next hop, a distributed procedure is