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["Fu, James" <jfu@sorrentonet.com>]

Title: RE: VPN solution - White flag ?

I didn't realize that these are the latest innovative IETF language trend.

James Fu 

-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Rosen [mailto:erosen@cisco.com]
Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 11:43 AM
To: Paul Doolan
Cc: yakov@cisco.com; rnewcomb@ennovatenetowrks.com; mpls@UU.NET;
diego@estos.upc.es
Subject: Re: VPN solution - White flag ?

I  don't really  want  to  keep it  up  either, but  as  long as  misleading
statements are being made I feel I have to reply.

Paul> BGP ...   distributes reachability information  in the IDR  system. We
Paul> may agree or disagree on how well it scales in that application.  That
Paul> has little bearing on whether  that property applies in this different
Paul> application.

Whether  something  scales in  an  extremely  large  environment has  little
bearing on whether it scales in  a smaller environment?  I can't imagine why
anyone would make such a claim.

Paul> The scalability  of BGP is  only one of  the issues with  the protocol
Paul> which call its use in this application into question.

Now that's an example of FUD!!