Shared Transition Space VS. BGP Next Hop [was: Re: Best practices IPv4/IPv6 BGP (dual stack)]

Tue May 6 10:50:39 UTC 2014

> From: Mark Tinka [mailto:mark.tinka at seacom.mu]
> 
> On Tuesday, May 06, 2014 11:27:09 AM Rajiv Asati (rajiva)
> wrote:
> 
> > Segment routing (SR) could/would certainly work with single-stack v6
> > and enable MPLS forwarding.
> 
> Certainly, but based on the Paris meeting, it was not high up on the agenda.
> 
> So we will, likely, have to rely on other solutions and wait for SR to catch up
> later.
> 
> At the moment, it seems SR is being pushed hard for PCEP as well as SDN.
> 
> Mark. 

I think the most revolutionary SR use case is the: 
3.2.  Protecting a node segment upon the failure of its advertising node. 
Of the now expired: draft-filsfils-rtgwg-segment-routing-use-cases-02. 

It's the first, complete and elegant FRR solution for the hierarchical MPLS implementations. 

adam