[171553] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Shared Transition Space VS. BGP Next Hop [was: Re: Best
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rajiv Asati (rajiva))
Tue May 6 05:27:35 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Rajiv Asati (rajiva)" <rajiva@cisco.com>
To: "<mark.tinka@seacom.mu>" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 09:27:09 +0000
In-Reply-To: <201405050934.01315.mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Mark,
> about leveraging SR to push native IPv6 support into MPLS,=20
Segment routing (SR) could/would certainly work with single-stack v6 and en=
able MPLS forwarding.=20
Cheers,
Rajiv
> On May 5, 2014, at 3:36 AM, "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka@seacom.mu> wrote:
>=20
>> On Monday, May 05, 2014 09:27:37 AM Vitkovsk=FD Adam wrote:
>>=20
>> You mean the SR right?
>=20
> No, I mean:
>=20
> draft-george-mpls-ipv6-only-gap-05
>=20
> The draft looks at issues that need to be fixed for MPLS to=20
> run in a single-stack IPv6 network.
>=20
> Of course, there is other work that is looking at fixing=20
> LDPv6 as well, as you know.
>=20
> At the recent MPLS SDN Congress in Paris, I asked some folk=20
> about leveraging SR to push native IPv6 support into MPLS,=20
> but they didn't seem like that was a key application yet. So=20
> while SR is promising, I think it's not a solution for this=20
> particular use-case yet.
>=20
> Mark.