----- Original Message ----- From: "Stewart Bryant" <stbryant@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Fangyu Li" <fangyuli1999@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: <lifang@xxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 4:53 PM > On 14/03/2012 13:36, Fangyu Li wrote: > > I support the allocation of an ACH codepoint to G.8113.1. > > For G.8113.1 had reached the technical and industry maturity to be > > assigned a code point, the codepoint allocation from IETF should allow > > the ITU-T to progress refinements to G.8113.1 such that it could > > satisfy all the functional requirements defined in RFC 5860. > > Please can you tell me version of the G.8113.1 text one would > need to implement to be able to seamlessly interwork with the > equipment that has already been been deployed? Stewart I am sure you already know the answer to that from posts made to the mpls list, where we have been told that there is currently an extensive deployment ('running code') using an experimental value (interesting that there is a last call just ending seeking to exterminate such practice, at least for application protocols) and that the wish is to move to a standards-based value which will, perforce, be a different value. Tom Petch > > - Stewart > >