The MPLS WG Archive

[Marcus Brunner <brunner@ccrle.nec.de>]

> 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.

Yes, IMHO GMPLS was always sort of a version 2 of MPLS being backward 
compatible with version 1 (MPLS) still runs for packet space, but extensted 
to be useful for other technologies.

Might be a good idea to write down the applicability of GMPLS to packet 
networks.

Marcus

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