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   MPLS WG                                                              
   Internet Draft                               Matthew R. Meyer (Ed)          
                                                      Global Crossing 
                                           Jean-Philippe Vasseur (Ed)
                                                   Cisco Systems, Inc 
                                                        Denver Maddux  
                                                          Nitrous.net  
                                                    Curtis Villamizar  
                                                        Amir Birjandi   
                                                     Juniper Networks 
                                                                        
   Proposed status: Standard                                            
   Expires: November 2005                                    May 2005 
    
    
                  MPLS Traffic Engineering Soft preemption 
                                      
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Abstract
 
   This document details MPLS Traffic Engineering Soft Preemption, a 
   suite of protocol modifications extending the concept of preemption 
   with the goal of reducing/eliminating traffic disruption of preempted 
   Traffic Engineering Label Switched Paths (TE LSPs). Initially MPLS 
   RSVP-TE was defined supporting only immediate TE LSP displacement 
   upon preemption. The utilization of a preemption pending flag helps 
   more gracefully mitigate the re-route process of preempted TE LSP. 
   For the brief period soft preemption is activated, reservations 
   (though not necessarily traffic levels) are in effect under-
   provisioned until the TE LSP(s) can be re-routed. For this reason, 
   the feature is primarily but not exclusively interesting in MPLS 
   enabled IP networks with Differentiated Services and Traffic 
   Engineering capabilities.  
 
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 RFC-2119 [i]. 
    
Table of Contents 
    
   1. Terminology....................................................3 
      1.1 Acronyms and Abbreviations.................................3 
      1.2 Nomenclature...............................................3 
   2. Motivations....................................................4 
   3. Introduction...................................................4 
   4. RSVP Extensions................................................5 
      4.1 SESSION-ATTRIBUTES Flags...................................5 
      4.2 RRO IPv4/IPv6 Sub-Object Flags.............................5 
      4.3 Use of the RRO IPv4/IPv6 Sub-Object in Path message........5 
   5. Theory of Operation............................................6 
   6. Elements Of Procedures.........................................7 
      6.1 On a soft preempting LSR...................................7 
      6.2 On Head-end LSR of soft preempted TE LSP...................9 
   7. Interoperability...............................................9 
   8. Management....................................................10 
   9. IANA Considerations...........................................10 
   10. Security Considerations......................................10 
   11. Acknowledgments..............................................10 
   12. Intellectual Property Considerations.........................11 
   13. References...................................................11 
      13.1 Normative references.....................................11 
      13.2 Informative references...................................11 
   14. Authors' Addresses...........................................12 
    
 

 
 
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1. Terminology
    
   This document follows the nomenclature of the MPLS Architecture RFC  
   3031 [MPLS-ARCH]. 
 
1.1 Acronyms and Abbrevations
     
   CSPF            Constraint-based Shortest Path First.  
   DS              Differentiated Services  
   LER             Label Edge Router  
   LSR             Label Switching Router  
   LSP             Label Switched Path  
   MPLS            MultiProtocol Label Switching  
   PPend           Preemption Pending  
   RSVP            Resource ReSerVation Protocol 
   TE              Traffic Engineering  
   TE LSP          Traffic Engineering Label Switched Path  
    
1.2 Nomenclature 
     
   Make Before Break - Technique used to non-intrusively alter the path 
   of a TE LSP. The ingress LER first signals the new path, sharing the 
   bandwidth with the primary TE LSP (to avoid double booking), then 
   switches forwarding over to a new path. Finally the old path state is 
   torn down.  
     
   Numerically Lower Preemption Priority - TE LSPs have setup and hold 
   preemption priorities of zero (best) through seven (worst).  A 
   numerically lower setup priority TE LSP is capable of preempting a 
   numerically higher hold priority TE LSP.   
     
   Preemption Pending flag - This flag is set on an IPv4 or IPv6 RSVP 
   Resv RRO sub-object to signal to the TE LSP ingress LER that the TE 
   LSP is about to be preempted and must be re-signaled (in a non 
   disruptive fashion, with make before break) along another path. If 
   present in the Path RRO, it is used to alert downstream LSRs that the 
   LSP was soft preempted upstream.  
     
   Point of Preemption - the midpoint or ingress LSR which due to RSVP 
   provisioning levels is forced to either hard preempt or under-
   provision and signal soft preemption.   
     
   Hard Preemption - The (typically default) preemption process in which 
   higher numeric priority TE LSPs are intrusively displaced at the 
   point of preemption by lower numeric priority TE LSPs. In hard 
   preemption the TE LSP is torn down before reestablishment.  
     
   Soft Preemption - The preemption process in which the point of 
   preemption allows a brief under-provisioning period while the ingress 

 
 
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   router is alerted to the requirement for reroute. In soft preemption 
   the TE LSP is reestablished before being torn down.  
     
   Soft Preemption Desired Flag - This flag is set on the  
   SESSION_ATTRIBUTES Flags in the Path message for the TE LSP indicate 
   to LSRs along the path that, should the LSP need to be preempted, 
   soft preemption should be used if supported.  
     
2. Motivations
     
   Initially MPLS RSVP-TE [RSVP-TE] was defined supporting only one 
   method of TE LSP preemption which immediately tears down TE LSPs, 
   disregarding the preempted in-transit traffic. This simple but abrupt 
   process nearly guarantees preempted traffic will be discarded, if 
   only briefly, until the RSVP Path Error message reaches and is 
   processed by the ingress LER and a new forwarding path can be 
   established. In cases of actual resource contention this might be 
   helpful, however preemption may be triggered by mere reservation 
   contention and reservations may not reflect forwarding plane 
   contention up to the moment. The result is that when conditions that 
   promote preemption exist and hard preemption is the default behavior, 
   inferior priority preempted traffic may be needlessly discarded when 
   sufficient bandwidth exists for both the preempted LSP and the 
   preempting TE LSP(s).    
     
   Hard preemption may be a requirement to protect numerically lower 
   preemption priority traffic in a non Diff-Serv enabled architecture, 
   but in a Diff-Serv enabled architecture, one need not rely 
   exclusively upon preemption to enforce a preference for the most 
   valued traffic since the marking and queuing disciplines should 
   already be aligned for those purposes. Moreover, even in non Diff-
   Serv aware networks, depending on the TE LSP sizing rules (imagine 
   all LSPs are sized at double their observed traffic level), 
   reservation contention may not accurately reflect the potential for 
   forwarding plane congestion.  
     
3. Introduction 
     
   In an MPLS RSVP-TE [RSVP-TE] enabled IP network, hard preemption is 
   the default behavior. Hard preemption provides no mechanism to allow 
   preempted TE LSPs to be handled in a make-before-break fashion: the 
   hard preemption scheme instead utilizes a very intrusive method that 
   can cause traffic disruption for a potentially large amount of TE 
   LSPs. Without an alternative, network operators either accept this 
   limitation, or remove functionality by using only one preemption 
   priority or using invalid bandwidth reservation values. 
   Understandably desirable features like ingress LER automated TE 
   reservation adjustments are less palatable when preemption is 
   intrusive and high network stability levels are a concern.   
     
 
 
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   This document defines the use of additional signaling and maintenance 
   mechanisms to alert the ingress LER of the preemption that is pending 
   and allow for temporary under-provisioning while the preempted tunnel 
   is re-routed in a non disruptive fashion (make-before-break) by the 
   ingress LER. During the period that the tunnel is being re-routed, 
   link capacity is under-provisioned on the midpoint where preemption 
   initiated and potentially one or more links upstream along the path 
   where other soft preemptions may have occurred. Optionally the 
   downstream path to the egress LER may be signaled as well to more 
   efficiently deal with any near simultaneous soft preemptions that may 
   have been triggered downstream of the initial preemption.  
     
4.  RSVP Extensions
     
4.1 SESSION-ATTRIBUTES Flags 
     
   To explicitly signal the desire for a TE LSP to benefit from the soft 
   preemption mechanism (and so not to be hard preempted if the soft 
   preemption mechanism is available), the following flag of the 
   SESSION-ATTRIBUTE object (for both the C-Type 1 and 7) is defined:  
                    
   Soft preemption desired:  0x40  (to be confirmed by IANA) 
    
4.2 RRO IPv4/IPv6 Sub-Object Flags
    
   To report that a soft preemption is pending for an LSP, a new flag is 
   defined in the IPv4/IPv6 sub-object carried in the RRO object message 
   defined in [RSVP-TE]. This flag is called the preemption pending 
   (PPend) flag. A compliant LSR MUST support the RRO object, as defined 
   in [RSVP-TE].  
      
   Several flags in the RRO IPv4 and IPv6 sub-object have been defined 
   in [RSVP-TE]and [FAST-REROUTE]:  
     
   This documents defines a new flag for the use of soft preemption 
   named the "Preemption pending" flag and defined as below:  
     
   Preemption pending: 0x10  
    
   The preempting node sets this flag if a pending preemption is in 
   progress for the TE LSP. This indicates to the ingress LER of this 
   LSP that it SHOULD be re-routed.  
             
4.3 Use of the RRP IPv4/IPv6 Sub-Object in Path message
     
   An LSR MAY use the Preemption pending flag in the IPv4/IPv6 RRO sub- 
   object carried in a PATH RRO message to simultaneously alert 
   downstream LSRs that the LSP was soft preempted upstream.  This 
   information could be used by the downstream LSR to bias future soft 

 
 
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   preemption candidates toward LSPs already soft preempted elsewhere in 
   their path.  
     
5. Theory of Operation
     
Let's consider the following example:   
    
   R0--1G--R1---155----R2          LSP1:        LSP2:   
           | \         |   
           |   \      155        R0-->R1      R1<--R2   
           |    \      |                 \      |   
          155   1G     R3                 V     V   
           |       \   |                 R5     R4   
           |        \ 155   
           |          \|   
           R4----1G----R5   
     
              Figure 1: example of Soft Preemption Operation 
     
   In the network depicted above in figure 1, consider the following  
   conditions:  
     
   -Reservable BW on R0-R1, R1-R5 and R4-R5 is 1Gb/sec. 
   -Reservable BW on R1-R2, R1-R4, R2-R3, R3-R5 is 155 Mb/sec.  
   -Bandwidths and costs are identical in both directions. 
   -Each circuit has an IGP metric of 10 and IGP metric is used by CSPF.  
   -Two TE tunnels are defined:   
           - LSP1: 155 Mb, setup/hold priority 0 tunnel, path R0-R1-R5.   
           - LSP2: 155 Mb, setup/hold priority 7 tunnel, path R2-R1-R4.   
   Both TE LSPs are signaled with the soft preemption desired bit of 
   their SESSION-ATTRIBUTE object set.  
   -Circuit R1-R5 fails. 
   -Soft Preemption is functional.  
    
   When the circuit R1-R5 fails, R1 detects the failure and sends an 
   updated IGP LSA/LSP and Path Error message to all the head-end LSRs 
   having a TE LSP traversing the failed link (R0 in the example above). 
   Either form of notification may arrive at the head-end LSRs first. 
   Upon receiving the link failure notification, R0 triggers a TE LSP 
   re-route of LSP1, and re-signals LSP1 along shortest path available 
   satisfying the TE LSP constraints: R0-R1-R4-R5 path. The Resv 
   messages for LSP1 travel in the upstream direction (from the 
   destination to the head-end LSR - R5 to R0 in this example). LSP2 is 
   soft preempted at R1 as it has a numerically lower priority value and 
   both bandwidth reservations cannot be satisfied on the R1-R4 link. 
     
   Instead of sending a path tear for LSP2 upon preemption as with hard 
   preemption (which would result in an immediate traffic disruption for 
   LSP2), R1s local bandwidth accounting for LSP2 is zeroed and a 
   preemption pending flagged Resv RRO for LSP2 is issued. Optionally, 
 
 
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   R1 MAY simultaneously send a soft preemption flagged Path RRO 
   notifying downstream LSRs of LSP2 soft preemption.  If more than one 
   soft preempted LSP has the same head-end LSR R2 (egress LER), these 
   soft preemption Resv (Path) messages may be bundled together. 
    
   Upon reception of the LSP2's Resv message with the preemption pending 
   flag set, R2 may update the working copy of the TE-DB before running 
   CSPF for the new LSP. In the case that Diff-Serv [DIFF-MPLS] and TE 
   [RSVP-TE] are deployed, receiving preemption pending may imply to a 
   head-end LSR that the available bandwidth for the affected priority 
   level and numerically greater priority levels has been exhausted for 
   the indicated node interface. R2 may choose to reduce or zero 
   available bandwidth for the implied priority range until more 
   accurate information is available (i.e. a new IGP TE update is 
   received).  
     
   It follows that R2 re-computes a new path and performs a non traffic 
   disruptive rerouting of the new TE LSP T2 by means of the make-
   before-break procedure. The old path is then torn down. 
     
6. Elements Of Procedure
    
6.1  On a soft preempting LSR
    
   When a new TE LSP is signaled which requires to preempt a set of TE 
   LSP(s) because not all TE LSPs can be accommodated on a specific 
   interface, a node triggers a preemption action which consists of 
   selecting the set of TE LSPs that must be preempted so as to free up 
   some bandwidth in order to satisfy the newly signaled numerically 
   lower preemption TE LSP. 
    
   For each preempted TE LSP, instead of sending a path tear upon 
   preemption as with hard preemption (which would result in an 
   immediate traffic disruption for the preempted TE LSP), the 
   preempting node's local bandwidth accounting for the preempted TE LSP 
   is zeroed and a preemption pending flagged Resv RRO for that TE LSP 
   is issued upstream toward the head-end LSR.  
    
   Optionally, the preempting node MAY simultaneously send a soft 
   preemption flagged Path RRO notifying downstream LSRs of soft 
   preemption.  If more than one soft preempted TE LSP has the same 
   head-end LSR, these soft preemption Resv (Path) messages may be 
   bundled together. 
 
   The preempting node MUST immediately send a Resv message with the 
   preemption pending RRO flag set for each soft preempted TE LSP. The 
   node MAY use the occurrence of soft preemption to trigger an 
   immediate IGP update or influence the scheduling of an IGP update.   
     

 
 
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   Should a refresh event for a soft preempted TE LSP arrive before the 
   soft preemption timer expires, the soft preempting node MUST continue 
   to refresh the TE LSP.  
    
   When the MESSAGE-ID extensions defined in [REFRESH-REDUCTION] are 
   available, Resv messages with the RRO preemption pending flag set 
   SHOULD be sent in reliable mode. 
    
   In the case that reservation availability is restored at the point of 
   preemption, the point of preemption MAY issue a Resv message with the 
   preemption pending flag unset to signal restoration to the head-end 
   LSR.  This implies that a head-end LSR might have delayed or been 
   unsuccessful in re-signaling.  
     
   To guard against a situation where bandwidth under-provisioning will 
   last forever, a local timer (named the 'Soft preemption timer') MUST 
   be started on the preemption node, upon soft preemption. If this 
   timer expires, the preempting node SHOULD send a PathTear and either 
   a ResvTear or a PathErr with the 'Path_State_Removed' flag set. 
    
   Selection of the preempted TE LSP at a preempting mid-point: when a 
   numerically lower priority TE LSP is signaled that requires the 
   preemption of a set of numerically higher priority LSPs, the node 
   where preemption is to occur has to make a decision on the set of TE 
   LSP(s), candidates for preemption. This decision is a local decision 
   and various algorithms can be used, depending on the objective. See 
   [PREEMPT-EXP]. As already mentioned, soft preemption causes a 
   temporary link under provisioning condition while the soft preempted 
   TE LSPs are rerouted by their respective head-end LSRs. In order to 
   reduce this under provisioning exposure, a soft-preempting LSR MAY 
   check first if there exists soft preempt-able TE LSP bandwidth 
   flagged PPend by another node but still available for soft-preemption 
   locally. If sufficient overlap bandwidth exists the LSR MAY attempt 
   to soft preempt the same LSP. This would help reducing the 
   temporarily elevated under-provisioning ratio on the links where soft 
   preemption occurs and the number of preempted TE LSPs. Optionally, a 
   midpoint LSR upstream or downstream from a soft preempting node MAY 
   choose to flag the LSPs soft preempted state. In the event a local 
   preemption is needed, the relevant priority level LSPs from the cache 
   are soft preempted first, followed by the normal soft and hard 
   preemption selection process for the given priority.  
    
   Under specific circumstances such as unacceptable link congestion, a 
   node MAY decide to hard preempt a TE LSP (by sending a PathTear and 
   either a ResvTear or a PathErr with the 'Path_State_Removed' flag 
   set) even if its head-end LSR explicitly requested 'soft preemption' 
   ('Soft Preemption desired' flag of the corresponding SESSION-
   ATTRIBUTE object set). Note that such decision MAY also be taken for 
   TE LSPs under soft preemption state. 
  
 
 
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6.2  On the Head-end LSR of soft preempted TE LSP
     
   Upon reception of a Resv message with the preemption pending flag 
   set, the head-end LSR MAY first update the working copy of the TE-DB 
   before computing a new path (e.g by running CSPF) for the new LSP. In 
   the case that Diff-Serv [DIFF-MPLS] and MPLS Traffic Engineering 
   [RSVP-TE] are deployed, receiving preemption pending may imply to a 
   head-end LSR that the available bandwidth for the affected priority 
   level and numerically greater priority levels has been exhausted for 
   the indicated node interface. A head-end LSR MAY choose to reduce or 
   zero available bandwidth for the implied priority range until more 
   accurate information is available (i.e. a new IGP TE update is 
   received).  
     
   Once a new path has been computed, the soft preempted TE LSP is 
   rerouted using the non traffic disruptive make-before-break 
   procedure. 
  
   As a result of soft preemption, no traffic will be needlessly black 
   holed due to mere reservation contention. If loss is to occur, it 
   will be due only to an actual traffic congestion scenario and 
   according to the operators Diff-Serv (if Diff-Serv is deployed) and 
   queuing scheme.  
    
7.  Interoperability
     
   Backward compatibility should be assured as long as the 
   implementation followed the recommendations set forth in [RSVP-TE]. 
   When processing an RRO, unrecognized sub-objects SHOULD be ignored 
   and passed on. An LSR without soft preemption capabilities but that 
   followed the aforementioned recommendation will simply ignore the RRO 
   Preemption Pending flag and treat the Resv message as a regular Resv 
   refresh message. As a consequence, the soft preempted TE LSP will not 
   be rerouted with make before break by the head-end LSR.   
     
   As mentioned prior, to guard against a situation where bandwidth 
   under-provisioning will last forever, a local timer (soft preemption 
   timer) MUST be started on the preemption node, upon soft preemption. 
   When this timer expires, the soft preempted TE LSP SHOULD be hard 
   preempted by sending a PathTear and either a ResvTear or a PathErr 
   with the 'Path_State_Removed' flag set. This timer SHOULD be 
   configurable and it is suggested to use a default value of 30 
   seconds. 
    
   The current hard preemption scheme can be emulated with a soft 
   preemption expiration timer set to zero. When set to 0, the TE LSP 
   SHOULD be hard-preempted. 
     
   Soft Preemption as defined in this document is designed for use in 
   MPLS RSVP-TE enabled IP Networks and may not functionally translate 
 
 
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   to some GMPLS technologies. As with backward compatibility, if a 
   device does not recognize a flag, it should pass the subobject 
   transparently.  
     
8.  Management
     
   Both the point of preemption and the ingress LER SHOULD provide some 
   form of accounting internally and to the network operator interface 
   with regard to which TE LSPs and how much capacity is under-
   provisioned due to soft preemption.  
     
   Displays of under-provisioning are recommended for the following  
   midpoint, ingress and egress views:  
    - Sum of current bandwidth per preemption priority per local 
   interface  
    - Sum of current bandwidth total per local interface  
    - Sum of current bandwidth total local router (ingress, egress,  
   midpoint)  
    - List current LSPs and bandwidth in PPend status   
    - List current sum bandwidth and session count in PPend status per  
   observed ERO hops (ingress, egress views only).  
    - Cumulative PPend events per observed ERO hops.  
  
9.  IANA Considerations
     
   IANA [RFC-IANA] will not need to create a new registry. This document 
   requires the assignment of flags related to RFC3209 [RSVP-TE] 
   sections 4.1.1.1, 4.1.1.2, 4.7.1 and 4.7.2.  
     
   IANA will assign RRO IPv4/IPv6 sub-object flags defined in RFC3209  
   [RSVP-TE] sec 4.1.1.1 and 4.1.1.2 as detailed in section 4.2 of this 
   document.  
     
   IANA will assign session attribute flags for both the C-Type 1 and 7 
   (defined in RFC3209 [RSVP-TE] sec 4.7.1 and 4.7.2) as detailed in 
   section 4.1 of this document.  
  
10. Security Considerations
 
   This document does not introduce new security issues. The security 
   considerations pertaining to the original RSVP protocol [RSVP] remain 
   relevant.  
    
11. Acknowledgments 
    
   The authors would like to thank Carol Iturralde, Dave Cooper, Loa  
   Andersson, Arthi Ayyangar, Ina Minei and George Swallow for their 
   valuable comments.  
    

 
 
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12.  Intellectual Property Considerations
    
   The IETF takes no position regarding the validity or scope of any 
   Intellectual Property Rights or other rights that might be claimed to 
   pertain to the implementation or use of the technology described in 
   this document or the extent to which any license under such rights 
   might or might not be available; nor does it represent that it has 
   made any independent effort to identify any such rights. Information 
   on the procedures with respect to rights in RFC documents can be 
   found in BCP 78 and BCP 79. 
    
   Copies of IPR disclosures made to the IETF Secretariat and any 
   assurances of licenses to be made available, or the result of an 
   attempt made to obtain a general license or permission for the use of 
   such proprietary rights by implementers or users of this 
   specification can be obtained from the IETF on-line IPR repository at 
   http://www.ietf.org/ipr. 
    
   The IETF invites any interested party to bring to its attention any 
   copyrights, patents or patent applications, or other proprietary 
   rights that may cover technology that may be required to implement 
   this standard. Please address the information to the IETF at ietf-   
   ipr@ietf.org. 
 
13.  References
 
13.1 Normative references
 
   [RFC] Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate Requirement 
   Levels," RFC 2119. 
    
   [RFC-IANA] T. Narten and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an 
   IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", RFC 2434.  
 
   [MPLS-ARCH] Rosen, Viswanathan, Callon, "Multiprotocol Label 
   Switching Architecture", RFC3031, January 2001.  
     
   [RSVP] R. Braden, Ed., et al, "Resource ReSerVation protocol (RSVP) - 
   version 1 functional specification," RFC2205, September 1997.  
    
   [RSVP-TE] Awduche et al, "RSVP-TE: Extensions to RSVP for LSP 
   Tunnels", RFC3209, December 2001.  
     
13.2 Informative references 
 
   [TE-REQ] Awduche et al, Requirements for Traffic Engineering over 
   MPLS, RFC2702, September 1999.  
     
   [DS-TE] Le Faucheur et al, "Requirements for support of Diff-Serv-
   aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", RFC3564, July  2003.  
 
 
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   [DS-TE-PROT] Le Faucheur et al, "Protocol extensions for support of     
   Diff-Serv-aware MPLS Traffic Engineering", RFC3564, July 2003.  
     
   [REFRESH-REDUCTION] Berger et al, "RSVP Refresh Overhead Reduction   
   Extensions", RFC 2961, April 2001.  
     
   [PREEMPT-EXP]De Oliviera, JP. Vasseur, L.Chen and C. Scoglio " LSP   
   Preemption Polcies for MPLS Traffic Engineering",   
   daft-deoliviera-diff-te-preemption-02.txt, October 2003  
     
   [DIFF-MPLS]  Le Faucheur, F., Wu, L., Davie, B., Davari, S., 
   Vaananen, P., Krishnan, R., Cheval, P. and J. Heinanen, "Multi-
   Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) Support of Differentiated Services", 
   RFC 3270, May 2002.  
    
 
14. Authors' Addresses 
    
   Matthew R. Meyer  
   Global Crossing  
   3133 Indian Valley Tr.  
   Howell, MI 48855  
   USA  
   email: mrm@gblx.net, matthew.r.meyer@gmail.com  
    
   Denver Maddux  
   Nitrous.net  
   4237 E. Hartford Ave. 
   Phoenix, AZ 85032 
   USA  
   email: denver@nitrous.net 
    
   Jean-Philippe Vasseur 
   CISCO Systems, Inc. 
   300 Beaver Brook 
   Boxborough, MA 01719 
   USA 
   Email: jpv@cisco.com 
    
   Curtis Villamizar  
   AVICI 
   curtis@faster-light.net 
    
   Amir Birjandi   
   Juniper Networks  
   2251 corporate park dr ste 
   herndon, VA 20171 
   USA 
   abirjandi@juniper.net 
 
 
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