The MPLS WG Archive

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>]

Sean,
 
> Several people write:
> 
> > [lots of commentary about how wonderful MPLS is at making forwarding fast]
> 
> You are analysing the performance of MPLS using the wrong metric.
> I think MPLS performs exactly as intended.
> Ipsilon basically died, and not even Nokia could revive it.
> UUNET found a new layer-2 religion, essentially killing backbone ATM.
> Many companies are distracted from actually learning how to do IP routing.

Of course, for some folks the *one and only* way to move data is by
looking at the IP header, and executing the longest match algorithm on
the destination address in that header (aka "destination based
routing"). Anything else (e.g., MPLS), *regardless* of its pragmatic
value, is viewed as "religion", "distraction", etc... 

Yakov.