Re: [PWE3] Charter Update: Last Call

[Danny McPherson <danny at tcb.net>]

On Nov 10, 2005, at 2:09 PM, Sasha Vainshtein wrote:

> Luca,
> Assuming that a PW of type "IP" only passes IP packets
> between its ACs, how would it work between, say,
> a pair of Ethernet-based IP ACs?
>
> More specifically, which entity would respond to
> ARP requests issued by a CE? This should
> be the local PE (because ARP requests are not IP
> packets and hence would not be passed across the "IP"
> PW)... and in order to that it has to be aware of
> the IP address and MAC address of the remote CE...
>
> I'd like to repeat the last statement from my
> original message to the list:
>
> If the original intent is to specify encasulation of IP
> packets over MPLS PWs and assign a PW Type to this construct,
> let's state this explicitly.

Unless some profound new objection occurs I'd prefer to leave
it as is, as I believe the current wording is sufficient.  It's been  
there
for the last few revisions based on some earlier recommendations
from folks and seems to capture the objective well enough.

Thanks!

-danny


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