With thanks....<div><br></div><div>RD<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Mar 10, 2011 at 2:08 PM, John Curran <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jcurran@arin.net">jcurran@arin.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">> On Mar 10, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Rudolph Daniel wrote:<br>
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> I am trying to understand the significance of the ITU's decision to promote OAM as opposed to the IETF's MPLS as a networking standard.<br>
> Any comments<br>
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</div>Rudi -<br>
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That's probably a little too far from PPML's charter to be a good topic for<br>
this mailing list... There's quite a bit of existing discussion of the MPLS<br>
OAM difference of opinion over on LightReading in this article:<br>
<<a href="http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=204977&" target="_blank">http://www.lightreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=204977&</a>> and<br>
the associated links that follow the article. The main IETF mailing list<br>
also has some discussion of the topic.<br>
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Short version is that the IETF and ITU agreed on an approach to a single<br>
OAM standard for MPLS, and the IETF has been working on it (albeit slower<br>
than expected) and it appears that some of the vendors in the ITU community<br>
continued to ship product based on the ITU version in the meantime. This<br>
ultimately came to a head last month, when the ITU Study Group 15 decided<br>
to adopt the ITU original proposal despite its earlier agreement with the IETF<br>
to work on a single joint standard. Implications could include interoperability<br>
issues for large-multivendor MPLS networks, and general concern about the<br>
strength of commitment behind any other agreements that the ITU might enter<br>
in the future. This is the aspect of the dispute that is disturbing for ARIN, and<br>
requires careful thought when considering offers from the ITU to "work together"<br>
on any Internet number resource activities.<br>
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FYI,<br>
/John<br>
<font color="#888888"><br>
John Curran<br>
President and CEO<br>
ARIN<br>
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