I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG.  These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area directors.  Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like any other last call comments. This document specifies a syntax for encapsulating MPLS in UDP for the purpose of tunneling MPLS packets across a non-MPLS portion of the network. There are already RFCs specifying the encapsulation of MPLS in IP, GRE, and L2TPv3. The motivation to specify yet another encoding is to take advantage of the fact that many routers know how to load balance links based on UDP ports, and this encoding gives the encapsulator the ability to take advantage of that. The security considerations follow other schemes for encapsulating MPLS, though there are some gotchas. If the tunnel is protected using IPsec, the UDP ports are hidden and there is little to no reason to use this protocol over the (slightly) more efficient MPLS over IP. Protecting the tunnel using DTLS may be viable if the size of the DTLS header is not prohibitive. I would expect that it would be common for the tunnel to be unprotected while the tunneled connections are protected with some cryptographic protocol (though this leaves the system open to network-overloading denial of service attacks). I could find nothing to take issue with. Formatting glitch: At least on my system, Viewing the pdf version of the document shows page 4 as being reduced to about 1/4 of its correct size (i.e. 5 or 6 point font). --Charlie