1. Carrier Optical Services Requirements (draft-ietf-ipo-carrier-requirements-04.txt) Yong Xue and Ananth Nagarajan 55th IETF, Atlanta, November 21, 2002

2. Purpose Describes carriers’ optical service requirements for Automatically Switched Optical Networks (ASON) –Describes service building blocks and service- related control plane requirements from carrier’s and end-user’s perspective

3. Brief Document History Based on the initial “Carrier Optical Service Framework and Requirements” work from OIF. Presented at 49th and 50th IETF and accepted as WG item after consolidation with other related drafts Published the first version ( draft-ietf-ipo-carrier- requirements-00.txt) at 51st IETF meeting in London Major edits and improved readability in 01 version after 52nd IETF (Salt Lake City) Minor editorial changes since then. Current version is 04.

4. Design Team Updated Author List –WorldCom: Yong Xue (Editor) –AT&T: Monica Lazer, Jennifer Yates, Dongmei Wang –C&W: Olga Aparicio –Sprint : Ananth Nagarajan –Japan Telecom: Hirokazu Ishimatsu –BellSouth: Steve Wright

5. What’s the Plan? Will be ready for WG last call after fixing minor nits (references, formatting, author list etc.) immediately after this meeting. Issues : very little or no feedback obtained on various revisions.

6. Q&A Thank You.