Subject: Re: GFP PW

From: Luca Martini <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 16:35:59 -0600

Since the IETF standard competing protocol to GFP is BCP ( RFC3518 ) , I would 
say why not support the IETF protocol first ? ( the one that does not create a 
new way of packing the sonet SPE ... .)

Ho, it turns out that RFC3518 uses standard ppp encapsulation :-)

Luca

Ping Pan wrote:
> Agree!
> 
> BTW, GFP is a GRE-like frame format within the container of SONET. It is
> used within SONET core, does not much to with CEP.
> 
> - Ping
> 
> On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Shahram Davari wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi Sasha,
>>
>>I am not sure we need the complexity of CEP emulation, specially when the
>>traffic is not real-time.
>>
>>Yours,
>>-Shahram
>>
>>
>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>From: Sasha Vainshtein [mailto:[email-masked]]
>>>Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 2:16 PM
>>>To: Shahram Davari
>>>Cc: PWE3 WG (E-mail); 'Luca Martini'
>>>Subject: RE: [PWE3] GFP PW
>>>
>>>
>>>Shahram,
>>>Please note that the latest CEP draft (draft-ietf-pwe3-sonet-02.txt)
>>>provides for carrying a dynamically changing bunch of virtually
>>>concatenated VTs. IMO this is a good substitute for a
>>>dedicated GFP/LCAS PW.
>>>
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>>>With best regards,
>>>                         Sasha Vainshtein
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>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Shahram Davari [mailto:[email-masked]]
>>>>Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 6:58 PM
>>>>To: 'Luca Martini'
>>>>Cc: PWE3 WG (E-mail)
>>>>Subject: [PWE3] GFP PW
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Hi Luca,
>>>>
>>>>Is it possible to add GFP to the HDLC and PPP draft?
>>>>
>>>>Yours,
>>>>-Shahram
>>>>
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