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[Shahram Davari <Shahram_Davari@pmc-sierra.com>]

Yakov,

Thanks, we will correct your comments.

-Shahram

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Yakov Rekhter [mailto:yakov@juniper.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 17, 2001 12:17 PM
> To: Shahram Davari
> Cc: 'mpls@UU.net'
> Subject: Re: MPLSOAM BOF revised minutes 
> 
> 
> 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...
> 
> [clipped...]
> 
> > 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.
>