1. Two demonstrations from 2001 and 2012 showed that SDN/OpenFlow and GMPLS can work together to provision optical paths. The controllers do not need optical network knowledge and end-to-end connectivity is maintained. 2. Lessons learned are that a logically centralized control plane with peer-to-peer data plane is better than full decentralization. Transport networks will aggregate IP and tunnel it, with multiple overlaying control planes. A SDN solution needs abstraction and coordination between IP and optical. 3. The document believes SDN will work by separating the control and data planes and introducing more virtualized packet and transport network services. GMPLS will remain an important provisioning protocol at the data plane level