Fwd: IESG soliciting comments on use of BGP for VPN

[Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>]

FYI below.
Sent to IAB, ops-dir, and rtg-dir.
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Alex
http://www.psg.com/~zinin/

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From: Alex Zinin <zinin@psg.com>
To: iab@ietf.org
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Date: Thursday, May 29, 2003, 12:29:57 PM
Subject: IESG soliciting comments on use of BGP for VPN

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Folks-

 The PPVPN WG has two WG documents that propose using BGP for VPN
 purposes:

  draft-ietf-ppvpn-bgpvpn-auto-05.txt
    describing how BGP can be used to disseminate VPN membership
    information

  draft-kompella-ppvpn-vpls-02.txt
    extending the above mechanism to also perform signaling for
    Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS)

 The IESG is currently considering the following questions which
 we would like to solicit comments on:

  1. What is the line between appropriate and inappropriate use
     of routing protocols in general, and BGP in particular.

  2. Whether the specific approaches described in the documents
     above represent an appropriate use of BGP.

  3. If the answer to question 2 above is negative, what alternative
     mechanisms could be used.

 Please send your comments on the questions above by June 12th (two
 weeks from today.)

 Thanks.

--
Alex Zinin

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