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[George Swallow <swallow@cisco.com>]

Alia -

Thanks for the comments:

> If this is really to be a BCP describing how ECMP and MPLS interact,
> then I'd really like to see a very short section describing the
> possibility that packets may be load-balanced based on the label stack
> as well.

Good addition!  Will do.

> At the time of the OAM label discussion, it was suggested that future
> implementations shouldn't include the reserved labels in any
> processing of the label stack done for load balancing.   Perhaps we
> don't want to capture that here - the idea seemed a bit sensitive at
> the time - though I'd be in favor of it.

The C in BCP is for current.  As this is a future suggestion, and a can
of worms to boot, I think I'll pass.

...George

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