Re: WG review: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (l2vpn)

[Kurt Erik Lindqvist <kurtis at kurtis.pp.se>]

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On torsdag, jun 19, 2003, at 05:18 Europe/Stockholm, Eric Rosen wrote:

> People need to understand that the purpose of the Pseudowire stuff 
> (PWE3) is
> to enable service providers to  offer existing services over IP 
> networks, so
> that they can convert their backbones to IP without first requiring 
> that all
> their  customers change  their  access equipment.   Producing the  
> protocols
> needed to enable  migration from legacy networks to IP  networks seems 
> to me
> to  be quite in  the mainstream  of IETF.   The technical  issues, 
> involving
> creating tunnels, multiplexing  sessions through tunnels, performing 
> service
> emulation at the  session endpoints, are all issues that  the IETF has 
> taken
> up in the past, there is nothing radically different going on here.

But how many of these protocols do we need? And how do we want this 
done?

We are complaining that the IETF have to much work, and still we 
replicate the same functionality in several WGs....

- - kurtis -

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