Re: MPLS,IETF, etc..

  *> extremely difficult.  In solving the essential problem
  *> it was tasked for (reducing routing control/signaling
  *> overhead via a more efficient marriage of (routed) L3
  *> messages and (switched) L2 transports), MPLS (thanks
  *> to its tag switching ancestors) is, IMHO, an elegantly
  *> simple  solution. That a solution can exhibit simplicity

Simplicity, in this case, seems to be in the eye of the
beholder.  I don't get why label swapping is any simpler than
hop/hop forwarding.

Bob Braden