Re: Draft charter for L3VPN: inter-AS/inter-provider

Folks-

 Regarding inter-AS and inter-provide. Small clarification: the
 proposal is not to move it outside the charter completely, but
 to clarify what the WG would be doing first and what next, i.e.,
 make visible progress on basic things and then move to more complex
 scenarios.

 Now, having read postings from everyone, it seems that the agreement
 is (correct me if I'm mistaken) that inter-provider is better
 put as a future item for now.

 Regarding inter-AS single provider, I have a couple of questions:

 1. Jim Guichard said:

      > 2. Is complexity associated with inter-AS (1 provider) scenarios
      >    sufficiently higher than for the single-AS case?

      potentially yes for the same reasons as (1). Jim

    Two reasons have been brought in (1):
    
      a) different encaps for 2547 (MPLS/GRE)
      b) provisioning end-to-end LSP is more complex in the multi-AS
         case

    It seems that this may indeed complicate the mechanisms.
    I'd love to see a little more discussion on this.

 2. Are we going to need additional documents compared to what we
    already have in order to describe inter-AS scenarios
    appropriately? If yes, I'd rather say one-AS first, then multi-AS
    single provider, and then multi-provider.

 Regards.

Alex