SG15 ignored the standing agreement between the ITU and the IETF on control of the MPLS standard. Having looked at both, in depth, I'd suggest that the IETF spec is more resilient and scales better than the ITU spec. Regardless, the market is unlikely to want/need both and if both exist then vendors are going to include both, inducing code bloat, unused code paths, increased development and support costs which will be passed on to the consumers. YMMV of course. /bill On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 03:55:20PM +1200, Jay Daley wrote:
Hi All
You may recall some discussions on this list back in March about the ITU-T developing a competing MPLS standard to the IETF:
http://list.waikato.ac.nz/pipermail/nznog/2011-March/017460.html
This is still an issue and I recently received the following email from an overseas contact that I thought it would be useful to share:
ITU-T SG15 is proposing to approve an MPLS Recommendation at its next meeting (December 2011). The history as to why this situation has come about is itself contentious. However were this approval to proceed, there is considerable belief in industry that the creation of a second standard, in addition to the IETFb