1. ITU/OIF Liaison Report Lyndon Ong Ciena March 24, 2006

2. ITU-T Meetings –SG 15 – 6-18 Feb 2006 Liaisons –1 Liaison to CCAMP Q.12 & 14 – on updated ASON specs –1 Liaison to CCAMP and many other groups SG15 – on the workplan for future Optical Transport Network and Technologies (OTNT) specs

3. Liaison Q.12 &14 Liaison –for information –new version of G.8080 approved includes more on multi-layering and now PCE –new version of G.7713 approved includes more on restoration, SPC and SCN resilience crankback not yet added (but no specific issue) –new appendix to G.7714.1 approved provides scenarios for use of J0/Jx discovery messages SG15 Liaison –for information and comment –shares workplan for OTNT work across SG15 groups

4. OIF Met in February 2006 in Nashville –Liaison to CCAMP Thanking CCAMP for their work on revising RFC 3946 (sonet/sdh) Expressing interest in further IETF ASON-related work on signaling and routing –A number of new activities underway

5. OIF Further work projects –E-NNI Routing 1.0 IA identifies routing requirements (aligned with JDT results) looks to future standard extensions (esp. CCAMP work) informational appendix will contain formats used in testing –Interworking Guideline Guideline document (informational) on interworking of current GMPLS and ASON (i.e., RFC 3473 and G.7713.2) signaling based on existing implementation experiences –UNI 2.0 and E-NNI 2.0 IAs work starting up – support for Ethernet, G.709, security, call/connection separation & sub-STS-1 rate services close ties to Ethernet work in CCAMP, e.g., TSpec work