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["Vijayanand C - CTD, Chennai." <vijayc@ctd.hcltech.com>]

I am just saying is that adding so much complexity and code to RSVP has only
made it to have 'not more overhead' than CR LDP.

Regards,
Vijay 

-----Original Message-----
From: David Charlap [mailto:david.charlap@marconi.com]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:50 PM
To: mpls@UU.NET
Subject: Re: initiating a discussion on mpls singaling protocols


Vijayanand C - CTD, Chennai. wrote:
>
> I accept your argument. However, it finally comes down to saying that
> RSVP-TE is not having more overhead than CR-LDP. Its taken a lot of
add-ons
> and workarounds to RSVP to bring to this level. Thats why the question of
> complexity, implementation and maintenance issues related to software life
> cycle reduction were raised.

The fact that extensions are needed to make it scale doesn't make the 
protocol somehow worthless.  You don't say BGP is trash because version 
1 can't scale to the current size of the internet, do you?

-- David