Return-Path: X-Original-To: mpls@ietfa.amsl.com Delivered-To: mpls@ietfa.amsl.com Received: from localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DA01AD190 for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:14:15 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -1.589 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.589 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, HOST_MISMATCH_COM=0.311] autolearn=no Received: from mail.ietf.org ([4.31.198.44]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id GA65PUGtIDjb for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:14:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from the-host.seacom.mu (ge-0.ln-01-jnb.za.seacomnet.com [41.87.104.245]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0BCBB1A1F7D for ; Sun, 12 Jan 2014 21:14:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=the-host.localnet) by the-host.seacom.mu with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1) (envelope-from ) id 1W2Zpr-0002Y9-I9; Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:13:15 +0200 From: Mark Tinka Organization: SEACOM To: Gregory Mirsky Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:13:09 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.6 (Linux/2.6.37.6-24-desktop; KDE/4.6.0; i686; ; ) References: <20140102151419.4692.48031.idtracker@ietfa.amsl.com> <201401121444.31194.mark.tinka@seacom.mu> <7347100B5761DC41A166AC17F22DF1121B744E67@eusaamb103.ericsson.se> In-Reply-To: <7347100B5761DC41A166AC17F22DF1121B744E67@eusaamb103.ericsson.se> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2508335.VgM72WgTO5"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201401130713.13126.mark.tinka@seacom.mu> Cc: "mpls@ietf.org" , "Eggert, Lars" Subject: Re: [mpls] Last Call: (Encapsulating MPLS in UDP) to Proposed Standard X-BeenThere: mpls@ietf.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list Reply-To: mark.tinka@seacom.mu List-Id: Multi-Protocol Label Switching WG List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 05:14:15 -0000 --nextPart2508335.VgM72WgTO5 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Monday, January 13, 2014 03:30:04 AM Gregory Mirsky=20 wrote: > Hi Mark, > if by "provisioning" you mean "mapped to", "assigned", > then what about IP addresses? Ain't they pre-provisioned > as well? Or these are native properties of NEs? The path that two successive IP packets take to get from=20 point A to B, in an MPLS-free network, can be arbitrary. =46EC's are constant for a group of IP destinations mapped to=20 them. Mark. --nextPart2508335.VgM72WgTO5 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAABAgAGBQJS03XpAAoJEGcZuYTeKm+GZYkP/RqYGtlKi269oMgQHgEsoJBF BKBUCdiL7cvpqxGfsnDbffS5ShCovdGGRQEksMlyp/U9x/p42YPKNRkR25dy5FCi p0n8rBNLW38hfXVuG3Z/xPkvyt+DTzGoNDQVPDu8iiLCCGxl4zqn/PHHJg0cR+mH AzeF7FqU8tZdgyblkWT8Td3FZhjmqhNFrkj69VdzzOv9k6HTEhR2BDoCp1tAP5DM MpQcDBk/IFWqTo/fLwYOmk7zSkpLzgWiXoRpqWPNh+WTKw5FutUGR0S7ERUMNeIS YlYeEMq2Cj92iLRvqiRKC1ibvwj82xt3W92Gy5tZ47t7wBFVsMgyEyLfmuygDnMB q7eIILCpSlvc1GSGKqBJaZZw5Y3n9u413saOI1wcqmIly2ancZnKIQBzJZKVpO9i e+IMc4MjaLMS1skLCOANz91Gw2fv1yzEtGKL8x7b204f7EQhFLPMd/Mge2tTItjb Y7wWfKtImqZyFpYUF/ul7g6ZsbjdCjivRmXEsbreN/RCaWKTke0tSHauu+Rgv6MW cdrEndK+hdHb01AnrQCP3dY+6K7gzKwt1RwmMEci1sU3MNj1Ko0h8G0BmoXf1gr9 3uchbpyItI2xVav5DVivY57HHmR1UMD9Z5LbAT2hXoDP4vdXLbH+uiXA5r6mgWIL lswyfd9borX6bu6Cvnht =lCn4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2508335.VgM72WgTO5--