RE: On BGP and VPLS

Yakov,

> 
> It should be abundantly obvious to an informed reader that use of
> BGP for autodiscovery (draft-ietf-ppvpn-bgpvpn-auto-03.txt), as
> well as for VPLS autodiscovery and label distribution utilizes
> exactly the same mechanisms as BGP/MPLS VPNs to support large-scale
> operation.
> 
> >  The above gives me a very uncomfortable feeling that the proposal
> >  is stretching BGP to perform functions it was not designed for.
> 
> IP wasn't designed to support CIDR.
> TCP wasn't designed to carrying routing information (BGP).
> RSVP wasn't designed to establish explicitly routed LSPs.
> etc...
> 

I add to it that LDP wasn't designed to signal MAC TLVs and to 
carry l2vpn related information...in fact the whole ietf
wasn't designed for sub-ip area (since it is considered temporary)!!

Hamid.

> And, bwt how do *you* know what BGP was designed for ? If one really
> wants to know what BGP was (and was not) designed for, then perhaps
> one should ask the folks who designed BGP.
> 
> Yakov.
> 
>