RFC 3429 · INFORMATIONAL · 2002

Assignment of the 'OAM Alert Label' for Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture Operation and Maintenance Functions

Overview

RFC 3429, “Assignment of the 'OAM Alert Label' for Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture Operation and Maintenance Functions”, is an Informational document published in November 2002 by H. Ohta. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.

Abstract

This document describes the assignment of one of the reserved label values defined in RFC 3032 (MPLS label stack encoding) to the 'Operation and Maintenance (OAM) Alert Label' that is used by user-plane Multiprotocol Label Switching Architecture (MPLS) OAM functions for identification of MPLS OAM packets. This memo provides information for the Internet community.

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