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draft-kompella-mpls-l2vpn-00.txt

  • From: Eric Rosen <erosen@cisco.com>
  • Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2000 11:49:49 -0400
  • cc: Andy.Malis@vivacenetworks.com, mpls@UU.NET
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Kireeti> Actually, you might be missing  some history, especially if you are
Kireeti> under the impression that draft-martini predates draft-kompella-...
Kireeti> Yes, draft-martini does predate draft-kompella.

Well, that clears that up. 

Kireeti> However,  the  notion  of  FR/ATM  transport  over  MPLS  has  been
Kireeti> _shipping_ in certain routers for nearly two years now.  The notion
Kireeti> of label stacking for  such transport has been discussed internally
Kireeti> for over a year, and communicated  to one of your co-authors over a
Kireeti> year ago

The basic design described  in draft-martini was certainly developed earlier
than that, though there's no way you could have known that. 

So if your point is that  you are innocent of having "reinvented the wheel",
I would  agree; if  your point  is that you  think you've  been plagiarized,
well, that is not correct.