Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere       
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation           
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Conventions            
 6     Overview  
 7     Network objectives
 8     Functional model   
        8.1     Label operations         
 9     Protection architecture types           
10     Switching types     
11     Operation types    
12     Ring interconnection and its functional model         
       12.1     Interconnection node             
13     Failure detection  
14     Ring protection switch protocol      
       14.1     Transmission and acceptance of ring protection switch requests         
       14.2     RPS PDU format         
       14.3     Ring node ring protection switch state             
       14.4     Ring protection switch state transition             
15     Misconnection avoidance 
16     Ring protection switch initiation criteria      
       16.1     Administrative commands    
       16.2     Automatically initiated commands    
Annex A – State transition tables of protection switching    
Annex B – Bandwidth sharing    
Appendix I – Wrapping and Steering examples    
        I.1                  Wrapping           
        I.2                  Short wrapping
        I.3          Steering