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[mpls] RE: [PWE3] Fwd: New Liaison Statement,"IP protocol number for PW using RFC 4023"

  • From: "Andrew G. Malis" <amalis@gmail.com>
  • Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 14:51:08 -0400
  • Cc: mpls@ietf.org, "pwe3 WG \(\(\(\(\(\(\(\(E-mail\)\)\)\)\)\)\)\)" <pwe3@ietf.org>

Yaakov,

I agree that protocol number 137 is correct, but to be precise, the 
PW packet does have an MPLS header with a PW label, it just doesn't 
have a tunnel label, because that's been replaced by the IP header.

I added the MPLS WG on this reply since the liaison was sent to both 
WGs, and in fact I think the return liaison should be generated by 
the MPLS WG, since it was the source of RFC 4023.

Cheers,
Andy

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At 8/22/2006 15:30 +0200, Yaakov Stein wrote:
>  Hi all,
>
>We have discussed the basic issue in the past.
>
>Rahul brought it up at IETF58 (draft-raggarwa-pwe3-pw-over-ip)
>and the majority there thought the technique obvious enough
>not to require a WG draft.
>
>Mark T has also discussed this
>http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0402/pdf/townsley.pdf.
>
>I believe that we should answer that protocol number 137
>is satisfactory for a PW packet without an MPLS header.
>
>Y(J)S


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