{"draft":"draft-ietf-teas-network-assigned-upstream-label-12","doc_id":"RFC8359","title":"Network-Assigned Upstream Label","authors":["X. Zhang, Ed.","V. Beeram, Ed.","I. Bryskin","D. Ceccarelli","O. Gonzalez de Dios"],"format":["ASCII","HTML"],"page_count":"10","pub_status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","status":"PROPOSED STANDARD","source":"Traffic Engineering Architecture and Signaling","abstract":"This document discusses a Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching\r\n(GMPLS) Resource reSerVation Protocol with Traffic Engineering\r\n(RSVP-TE) mechanism that enables the network to assign an upstream label\r\nfor a bidirectional Label Switched Path (LSP).  This is useful in\r\nscenarios where a given node does not have sufficient information to\r\nassign the correct upstream label on its own and needs to rely on the\r\ndownstream node to pick an appropriate label.  This document updates\r\nRFCs 3471, 3473, and 6205 as it defines processing for a special\r\nlabel value in the UPSTREAM_LABEL object.","pub_date":"March 2018","keywords":[],"obsoletes":[],"obsoleted_by":[],"updates":["RFC3471","RFC3473","RFC6205"],"updated_by":[],"see_also":[],"doi":"10.17487\/RFC8359","errata_url":null}