Re: VPN Identifiers

Eric Rosen <erosen@cisco.com> Mon, 11 August 2003 17:27 UTC

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To: richard.spencer@bt.com
cc: Sasha@AXERRA.com, l2vpn@ietf.org
Subject: Re: VPN Identifiers
In-reply-to: Your message of Sun, 10 Aug 2003 23:25:39 +0100. <B5E87B043D4C514389141E2661D255EC08B64D@i2km41-ukdy.nat.bt.com>
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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?