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[Jim Guichard <jguichar@cisco.com>]

Randy,

I think there are many ISPs that would disagree with you, especially here
in Europe. Therefore, we are not all agreed that 2547 is a useless
alternative to overlay or other types of peer-to-peer VPN connectivity. So,
if the glove does not fit, do not wear it, this is fine .... but it is a
solution that many ISPs have adopted and are implementing as we speak, so
we cannot make a generalization  .. Jim

At 15:37 26/10/2000 -0700, Randy Bush wrote:
>> 	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
> 


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