Subject: Re: [mpls] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-04.txt> (Encapsulating MPLS in UDP) to Proposed Standard
From: Mark Tinka <[email-masked]>
To: Gregory Mirsky <[email-masked]>
Cc: "[email-masked]" <[email-masked]>, "Eggert, Lars" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 07:13:09 +0200
List-Id: Multi-Protocol Label Switching WG <mpls.ietf.org>

On Monday, January 13, 2014 03:30:04 AM Gregory Mirsky 
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 
point A to B, in an MPLS-free network, can be arbitrary.

FEC's are constant for a group of IP destinations mapped to 
them.

Mark.