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MPLSOAM BOF revised minutes

  • From: dirk.ooms@alcatel.be
  • Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:38:20 +0100
  • Cc: Shahram Davari <Shahram_Davari@pmc-sierra.com>, "'mpls@UU.net'" <mpls@UU.NET>
  • X-MIMETrack: Itemize by SMTP Server on BEMAIL06/BE/ALCATEL(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at12/18/2001 09:38:21,Serialize by Router on BEMAIL06/BE/ALCATEL(Release 5.0.8 |June 18, 2001) at12/18/2001 09:38:22,Serialize complete at 12/18/2001 09:38:22

Yakov,

Indeed, in the control plane IP and MPLS are intertwined, but in the
data plane MPLS is a separate layer (GMPLS isn't) and don't forget that
this BoF was about data plane OAM.

dirk

Yakov Rekhter wrote:
> 
> 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.

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