-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On torsdag, jun 19, 2003, at 05:18 Europe/Stockholm, Eric Rosen wrote: > People need to understand that the purpose of the Pseudowire stuff > (PWE3) is > to enable service providers to offer existing services over IP > networks, so > that they can convert their backbones to IP without first requiring > that all > their customers change their access equipment. Producing the > protocols > needed to enable migration from legacy networks to IP networks seems > to me > to be quite in the mainstream of IETF. The technical issues, > involving > creating tunnels, multiplexing sessions through tunnels, performing > service > emulation at the session endpoints, are all issues that the IETF has > taken > up in the past, there is nothing radically different going on here. But how many of these protocols do we need? And how do we want this done? We are complaining that the IETF have to much work, and still we replicate the same functionality in several WGs.... - - kurtis - -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP 8.0.2 iQA/AwUBPvFeN6arNKXTPFCVEQLVIgCfXq5oAs5gjeynps93pJOp/ssGNAMAn1ne a9jFlbHw84uSCivXKDF4Sex7 =kaRD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----