The MPLS WG Archive

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

> 	On a technical note (:-)) - I believe it is
> possible to support a logarithmic growth in the
> number of "boxes" relative to services.  I suspect 
> this would make service providers happier than a
> linear growth.

but not as happy as zero growth, which solutions such as
ipsec provide.  remember, for a provider, management cost
is a function of number of customers, which we want to
increase, and routers,which we prefer not to increase.

and, as it seems to be agreed that the 2547 cleverness is
not really for isps, it's lucky we have a useful alternative.

randy