RE: Draft charter for L2VPN - IPLS & ARP Mediation

Giles,

> 
> IPLS meets the requirement for which I originally envisaged VPLS being
> useful (i.e. interconnecting IP routers or hosts) and does this more
> efficiently than VPLS.  I would be reluctant to use VPLS to 
> interconnect
> switches, as that exposes the SP to the customer network's MAC
> addresses, but I can see why this might be attractive to customers in
> the metropolitan area at least.
> 

What do you suggest as a service to interconnect switches
besides using VPLS? (particularly across IP/MPLS network).

(your observation seems similar to l3vpns where the SP is
exposed to customer routes which seems okay for some 
customers)...

Hamid.