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[mpls] MPLS over L2TPv3 as WG item

  • From: "W. Mark Townsley" <townsley@cisco.com>
  • Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 09:38:02 -0500
  • Cc: mpls@ietf.org
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Adrian Farrel wrote:

> Well, I suppose it does not harm. But does it do any good?
> 
> Looking at the current draft, there are no protocol specifications and no
> code point definitions. The draft boils down to a statement that the
> payload of an L2TP packet may be an MPLS packet, some restatements from
> L2TPv3 about how the L2TP fields should be set, and an applicability
> statement.

The focus on encapsulation alone in this draft was made at the WG's request.

- Mark

> 
> I would suggest that this should be simply recast as an informational
> draft making an applicability statement for MPLS over L2TP.
> 
> Regards,
> Adrian
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Loa Andersson" <loa@pi.se>
> To: "W. Mark Townsley" <townsley@cisco.com>
> Cc: <mpls@ietf.org>
> Sent: Friday, February 04, 2005 9:43 AM
> Subject: Re: [mpls] MPLS over L2TPv3 as WG item
> 
> 
> 
>>Working Group,
>>
>>the reception of the draft was a wee bit ambigious (some no, some no
>>need and some yes), with some service providers strongly in favor.
>>We would like to poll the working group on whether we want to make
>>draft-townsley-mpls-over-l2tpv3-00.txt a wg doc.
>>
>>To make it possible to publish a working group document, given a rough
>>consensus in the wg, we need to have comments Feb 11.
>>
>>Send comments to the mailing list or wg chairs. We are looking for
>>both positive and negative comments.
>>
>>/Loa and George
>>
>>W. Mark Townsley wrote:
>>
>>
>>>As requested by Loa at the last MPLS WG meeting, I have renamed the
> 
> MPLS
> 
>>>over L2TPv3 draft as follows:
>>>
>>>draft-townsley-mpls-over-l2tpv3-00.txt
>>>
>>>With consensus confirmation from this list, I would like to resubmit
>>>this version as a WG item (preferably before the upcoming deadline for
>>>the next meeting).
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>- Mark
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>-- 
>>Loa Andersson
>>
>>Principal Networking Architect
>>Acreo AB                           phone:  +46 8 632 77 14
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>>Kista, Sweden                      email:  loa.andersson@acreo.se
>>                                            loa@pi.se
>>
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> 
> 

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