Re: Single vs many solution(s)

Himanshu,

> Richard,
>
> Like it or not - this entire debate is about which signaling protocol
> to use. K.Kompella VPLS (decoupled feature) could also be supported
> using LDP signaling. However, that is not the focus of the debate.
> 
> As for inter-AS case, I remember the discussion in one of the design
> team meetings (in Boston) where Yakov himself suggested that inter-AS =
> can be handled by one AS handing off the traffic on the Ethernet and other
> AS picking that up as customer facing inter-carrier traffic. May be
> I misunderstood him.

May be you did.

> I am (personally) skeptical about the BGP vs LDP support
> numbers. There is danger in delaying this decision, it impedes
> the L2VPN standardization effort, which in turn causes reluctance
> and spurious in offering such service.

Your assertion about relation between delaying standardizaiong
effort and offering VPLS service is questionable. Perhaps you may
consider that 2547bis is widely deployed, even if it is not an IETF
standard. Ditto for draft-martini.

Yakov.