The MPLS WG Archive

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>]

Shahram,

> Hi All,
> 
> I have received two comments from George Swallow and Ben Mack-Crane,
> and corrected their comments accordingly. This is the revised
> minutes. Please let me know if further correction is needed.

see in-line...

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> Yakov - Ron's comments that there are two views - MPLS being a layered networ
> network - is not true. MPLS doesn't exist outside IP because it uses IP 
> routing and signaling.

What I said is that Ron's slides showed that there are two views on MPLS,
with one of these views saying that MPLS is a layer on its own. The point
I made is that this view doesn't match the reality, as in reality MPLS, and
specifically its control plane, doesn't exist outside IP because MPLS
control plane uses IP addressing, routing (OSPF, ISIS), and signaling
(RSVP-TE, LDP, CR-LDP).

Yakov.