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Encapsulating MPLS in IP or GRE

  • From: David Meyer <dmm@sprint.net>
  • Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 08:10:57 -0700
  • Cc: "Andrew G. Malis" <Andy.Malis@vivacenetworks.com>, mpls@UU.NET, Loa Andersson <loa.andersson@utfors.se>, George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>
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>> P.S.  Is it reasonable to expect that an IP protocol number (or two, 
>> including multicast) will be allocated for this purpose?  Just how 
>> popular does a protocol need to be to merit one of these? 

If anything, it should be allocated out of the IANA block
(possibly from the IANA SNAP Protocol IDs).

Dave