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[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

Hi David,

On Thu, 21 Nov 2002, David Charlap wrote:

> During the course of development, I have noticed that there are several
> features of generalized-RSVP (draft-ietf-mpls-generalized-rsvp-te-09)
> that are applicable to non-generalized MPLS networks.

There are those who refer to generalized and non-generalized MPLS
networks, those who talk about GMPLS and classical MPLS, etc.

I would prefer to view this at two levels:
  o (A) generalized signaling and (B) non-generalized/classical signaling
  o (i) non-packet and (ii) packet LSPs (or MPLS networks)

(A) can be used for both (i) and (ii)
(B) can be used for (ii), but does rather poorly for (i)

If an applicability statement is needed to say this, so be it.

Kireeti.