Re: [Idr] Re: Last Call: 'Connecting IPv6 Islands over IPv4 MPLS using IPv6 Provider Edge Routers (6PE)' to Proposed Standard

I will take this to our list  and we will additionally discuss at our
interim meeting (mid Sept). In all likelihood (without having gone over the
entire draft with a fine toothed comb), it will satisfy one item in our
problem space. 

If for some reason the softwires WG finds deficiencies, we will explain
ourselves.

-DWard

On 8/25/06 8:49 AM, "Yakov Rekhter" <yakov@juniper.net> wrote:

> Bill,
> 
>>> How does this interact with softwires?
>> 
>> Sam,
>> 
>>   This protocol fits into more or less the Mesh problem of softwires
>> (section 3.1 of draft-ietf-softwire-problem-statement).  The problem
>> statement says:
>> 
>>>   It should also be noted that the mesh problem can be considered as a
>>>   derivative of L3VPN, where the core provides transit in one address
>>>   family and the islands are connected via L3VPN of another address
>>>   family.
>> 
>> And indeed, the draft-ooms document is more or less an application of the
>> L3VPN technology to the IPv6 address family.
>> 
>>   I don't know what the softwires participants' position is with respect
>> to this draft, but it predates the softwires work [at least, by that
>> name] by about 5 years.
> 
> I think it would be very useful to get the softwires participatns'
> position with respect to this draft. Specifically, if the draft
> does solve their problem, then the softwires WG should document it
> as a solution, and if not, then again the softwires WG should
> document it with an explanation on why it does not solve their
> problem.
> 
> Yakov.
> 
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