Subject: Re: Info aggregation

From: Mark Seery <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 5 May 2003 13:33:27 -0700 (PDT)

Yakov,

Another set of questions to add to yours:

-Why does one AS need to know anything other than that
the other AS is a member of the VPLS?

-Why should one AS be restricted to how it
distributes/signals information internally based on
the model the other AS wants it to work on (for
example what if one AS wants to pursue multicast and
the other does not?, or one wants to pursue BGP
signaling and the other does not? how does a network
gracefully evolve over time?).  

-Why should one SP, open up their AS to the running of
OAM and other management PDUs through their AS?

-Why should one AS expose how many PEs are in its
portion of the VPLS; especially if it is a
service-oriented VPLS rather than an enterprise
interconnect.

-In today's IP networks why doesn't every router
within the AS peer with every other router in other
ASs that its traffic passes through? 

-Why has a GMPLS overlay proposal been submitted to
CCAMP: are these not end-to-end connections? Are the
issues not ultimately similar?

All, 

If these issues have already been discussed and we are
rehashing old territory then just say so and happy to
move on.

Mark