Re: [mpls] Last Call: <draft-ietf-mpls-in-udp-04.txt> (Encapsulating MPLS in UDP) to Proposed Standard

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Hi,

On 2014-1-14, at 16:23, Joel M. Halpern <jmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Isn't that basically the problem of the inner traffic sender, not the problem of the tunnel that is carrying the traffic?

no, because the sender of the inner traffic may be blasting some L2 traffic, for an L2 where that is OK behavior. But that traffic is now being encapsulated inside UDP and can hence go anywhere on the net *without the sender being aware of this*.

> Asking tunnel's to solve the problem of applications with undesirable behavior seems backwards.

It is the *tunnel* that performs the encapsulation and allows that traffic to go places it couldn't before. And so it's the tunnel's responsibility to make sure that the traffic it injects into the Internet complies with the BCPs we have on congestion control.

Lars

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