Some can use IPv4, some IPv6, some MPLS, some even openflow.
Sure IETF goes step further and defines how protocols work within those ASes such that we do not get into proprietary protocols and have some hope here and there that implementations of given RFC have a chance to interoperate.
Then if you ask the younger generation what is Internet they tell you it is facebook, google, youtube etc ... so all they need a last mile connection by google, face or ms and "Internet" becomes controlled all under just few administrations. Geoff has great slides we have all seen about the Cartel :) How IETF is going to even influence decisions made by such Cartel remains to be seen.
Meanwhile let's continue with SR and PSP topic ;-)
On Fri, Feb 28, 2020 at 2:41 PM Keith Moore <moore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2/28/20 3:18 AM, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> So this is not IETF business to say - no you can not do it as it may
> sometimes fail say due to MTU.
I emphatically disagree. IETF's job is to specify what is believed to
work well for the Internet, and that sometimes involves making judgments
about the relative merits of different parties' claims - e.g. between
one party's claimed benefit and what other people understand is likely
to cause harm.
Keith
