Re: Advancing the Protocol and Morin Drafts

[Thomas Morin <[e-mail]>]

Hi Ice,

IJsbrand Wijnands :
> 
> Thomas Morin:
> >
> > Most importantly, I would like to highlight the fact that, AFAICT the
> > people opposing the path proposed by the chairs have not proposed an
> > alternative that would help the working group push to the IESG, a  
> > set of documents describing a multicast VPN solution that vendors can  
> > implement and that would inter-operate.
> 
> That is not true, Cisco posted the draft-rosen-l3vpn-mvpn- 
> profiles-01, which documents very precisely how the PIM based  
> solutions work. And we are more then willing to add a BGP profile to  
> it with help of the people that prefer a BGP approach.

No, that would not describe "a multicast VPN solution", but multiple
ones.

> [...]  
> Each customer can choose the preferred approach and talk to the  
> vendor for an implementation.

For many operators its not "the vendor" but multiple vendors, and that's
why many operators (and apparently other IETF contributors too) see an
interest in standardizing one solution, with options where needed, and
not multiple profiles.

-Thomas