1. Introduction .1 2. Background .3 3. Our architecture and applications .5 3.1 Architecture .5 3.2 Applications 7 4. Subset specification for the hardware signaling module 9 4.1 Procedures .9 4.2 LDP messages .10 4.2.1 LDP PDU [8] 11 4.2.2 Label Request Message [3][4][5][7][8] 12 4.2.3 Label Mapping Message [3][4][5][7][8] .14 4.2.4 Label Withdraw Message [3][4][5][7][8] .15 4.2.5 Label Release Message [3][4][5][7][8] .15 4.3 LDP TLVs .16 4.3.1 General description of TLV [8] 16 4.3.2 FEC TLV [8] .16 4.3.3 LSPID TLV [7] .18 4.3.4 Generalized Label Request TLV [4] .19 4.3.5 Traffic Parameter TLV [3] 19 4.3.6 Hop Count TLV [8] 21 4.3.7 Preemption TLV [7] 22 4.3.8 Generalized Label TLV [3] .22 4.3.9 Label Request Message ID TLV [8] .23 4.3.10 Interface ID TLV [4][5] 23 5. Summary .24