Re: [mpls] draft-fang-mpls-label-forwarding-no-swap - how much does it really save?

"Andrew G. Malis" <agmalis@gmail.com> Tue, 28 July 2015 11:50 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mpls] draft-fang-mpls-label-forwarding-no-swap - how much does it really save?
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Stewart has it right:

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Stewart Bryant <stbryant@cisco.com> wrote:

> If that is not a requirement in your world, then I suggest
> that you get a new ethertype and call it MPLS2
>

This is enough of a deviation from the millions of devices in the installed
base that you can just get a new Ethertype and optimize to your heart's
content. You're going to need new ASICs anyway, may as well go all the way.
This also removes the need to do any sort of peer capability negotiation
for backwards compatibility, and gives you the freedom to produce devices
that ONLY support MPLS2 if you so desire, to have a less expensive and
optimized data center solution. I would support standardization in this
case.

Cheers,
Andy