Re: [PWE3] New PWE3 Charter Items: SPVC Interworking

[Scott W Brim <sbrim at cisco.com>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2004 04:31:40PM -0000, benjamin.niven-jenkins@bt.com allegedly wrote:
> We therefore believe that the general interworking of technologies such as FR, ATM, ethernet, SDH, etc:
> -	is not applicable to the Internet,
> -	will not have wide deployment on the Internet, and
> -	will not form part of the infrastructure of the Internet
> 
> Therefore the topic of service interworking is out of scope of the IETF and thus also out of scope of the PWE3 WG.

My personal opinion: I think interworking had better be in scope or the
IETF will leaving it out rather soon.  Issues in interworking of FR,
ATM, etc. are not IETF issues ... except where they imply requirements
for IETF technology, including pseudowires.  That includes this case.  I
would not want the IETF to decide how to translate service parameters
between pseudowire client technologies (and it hasn't), but
establishment and management of pseudowires goes far beyond that.
Finally, because of the IETF's long history with Ethernet, it should
continue to be involved there as well.

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