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[Eric Rosen <erosen@cisco.com>]

In support of work going on in  PPVPN and PWE3, it is desirable to have some
standards for encapsulating MPLS packets inside IP packets.  The draft whose
announcement  I attach  below is  the result  of merging  two  previous (but
expired)  documents, draft-worster-mpls-in-ip,  and draft-rekhter-mpls-over-
gre.  I would like to present this for the consideration of the MPLS WG as a
standards track document.

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• From: Internet-Drafts@ietf.org
• Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 07:27:26 -0400

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	Title		: Encapsulating MPLS in IP or GRE
	Author(s)	: T. Worster, Y. Rekhter, E. Rosen
	Filename	: draft-rosen-mpls-in-ip-or-gre-00.txt
	Pages		: 7
	Date		: 13-Aug-02
	
In various applications of MPLS, label stacks with multiple entries
are used.  In some cases, it is possible to replace the top label of
the stack with an IP-based encapsulation, thereby enabling the
application to run over networks which do not have MPLS enabled in
their core routers.  This draft specifies two IP-based
encapsulations, MPLS-in-IP, and MPLS-in-GRE.  Each of these is
applicable in some circumstances.

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