RE: Advancing the Protocol and Morin Drafts

["RAMACHANDRAN, PRASANNA, ATTOPS" <[e-mail]>]

I vote NO.

Being in AT&T Advanced Tier support group and having supported the MVPN
core for the last 2 years, I can clearly say that we need a solution
such as PIM-BiDir that can reduce the number of multicast states in the
PEs to be able to scale the Groups X Sources x OILs explosion for our
very large Enterprise customers.   We definitely do not want to tweak a
crucial protocol like BGP of which our scale is 2 Million VPNV4 routes
in the US alone.


Prasanna Ramachandran
Advanced Technical Support - Internet Edge
AT&T Global Network Operations
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-----Original Message-----
From: [e-mail] [mailto:[e-mail]] On Behalf
Of Marshall Eubanks
Sent: Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:04 AM
To: [e-mail]
Cc: Ross Callon
Subject: Advancing the Protocol and Morin Drafts 

This email starts a 3 week call for input, to expire October 23, 2008,  
for the following steps:

1.) To accept draft-morin-l3vpn-mvpn-considerations-03 as a working
group document;  and

2.) To turn this document into a requirements draft, with mandatory to
implement features for an interoperable implementation. The authors
have indicated that they are willing to do this.

Our intention is, if this approach is accepted, to then begin WG last
call to submit to the IESG for publication:

draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast
draft-ietf-l3vpn-2547bis-mcast-bgp

We expect that these two documents will be submitted more or less as is
(i.e., certainly with any new bug fixes or other necessary corrections  
and
improvements, but without specific mandatory to implement feature
description in those drafts).

Please respond to the list with your recommendations for these two
courses of action.

Regards
Marshall & Danny