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RE: VPN Identifiers

"Hamid Ould-Brahim" <hbrahim@nortelnetworks.com> Mon, 11 August 2003 17:59 UTC

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From: Hamid Ould-Brahim <hbrahim@nortelnetworks.com>
To: erosen@cisco.com, richard.spencer@bt.com
Cc: Sasha@AXERRA.com, l2vpn@ietf.org
Subject: RE: VPN Identifiers
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 13:57:31 -0400
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Eric,

> 
> 
> 
> We already  have an  8-byte VPN-Id format  which can  be 
> based either  on AS
> numbers or on OUIs, and is  extensible to other possibilities 
> as well.  Have
> you looked at draft-ouldbrahim-ppvpn-gid-03.txt? 
> 
> 

Yes. Actually I was going to suggest to the WG to
consider the gid draft as part of the vpn identifiers 
discussion. 

It looks to me all what is needed is a format that guarantees
uniqueness of the id route target and 2685 formats. 
It's length is however limited to 8 octets in length. 
I personally don't see a requirement to support variable length 
gids at this point in time.

Hamid.

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