Pekka,
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From your message, I can't tell which of those, or of any number of other
possible objections, is the basis of your objection.
BTW - all these things were already being worked on in PPVPN. Some were
even described in the charter.
Fair question, I probably should have included more text in the first
place :-).
1. Virtual Private LAN Service. This is Internet-wise ethernet bridging
over routing protocols such as BGP, IS-IS, etc; further, this has
typically little respect for security implications which are implicit (or
even explicit) in LAN networks.
So, my main points are:
- we must not overload routing protocols and such infrastructure (IMHO,
this seems an inevitable path the work would go towards..)
- we must not create complexity by deploying ethernet bridging all over
the Internet. Our work should be focused on making IP work, not
specifying Ethernet-over-IP (or worse, Ethernet-over-IP as a *service*).
The proposed charter talks about VPLS "across an IP and an MPLS-enabled
IP network". Such a network does not have to be the Internet.
Yakov.