The MPLS WG Archive

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov@cisco.com>]

Randy,

> > 	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.

All I can say that the usefulness of various alternatives is unlikely
to be determined by the debates on this list, but is likely to be
determined by the competition on the marketplace. With this in mind,
what exactly are you trying to accomplish by continuing this debate ?

Yakov.