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[Curtis Villamizar <curtis@fictitious.org>]

In message <9D42C6E086250248810DCADA39CE7EFC9722BF@nimbus>, John Drake writes:
> I think the point was that one would not be able to establish an LSP on a
> path containing both ASON and GMPLS networks

And you cannot send a packet on a path that contains bot OSI and IP
networks.  Such is the nature of standards.

In a situation like this one of them typically withers and dies.  But
this doesn't happen until after a great deal of arguing and dead end
standards documents from one SDO, typically the one that emphasizes
generating grandeous standards as opposed to carefully considering
real requirements and requiring code and implementations along with
the standards process.

Curtis