Re: Comments on draft-morin-l3vpn-mvpn-considerations-01.txt

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov at juniper.net>]

Eric,

> > I'm interested in understanding why you have such a strong feeling about
> > a statement that only recommends a relatively minor optional feature,
> 
> I am uncomfortable with it for a number of reasons:
> 
> - If an SP  wants to offer "outsourced RP" service  to its customers, that's
>   fine.  That does  not necessarily require that the PEs  serve as RPs.  The
>   "PE  as RP"  model  is a  particular  way of  deploying  an outsourced  RP
>   service.   How best  to deploy  an outsourced  RP service  is a  topic for
>   discussion between  an SP and  its vendors, and not  necessarily something
>   that the IETF even needs to be involved in.

For the same reason the IETF should not preclude the ability to co-located 
RP and PE.

> - I  cannot believe  that "PE  as RP"  is really  going to  be  the superior
>   "outsourced RP" deployment model at scale.  

"I cannot believe" is not a technical argument.

Yakov.