Devil's Advocate - Segment Routing, Why?

Fri Jun 19 14:42:23 UTC 2020

> Saku Ytti
> Sent: Friday, June 19, 2020 8:50 AM
> 
> On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 10:24, Radu-Adrian Feurdean <nanog at radu-
> adrian.feurdean.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> > > I don't understand the point of SRv6. What equipment can support
> > > IPv6 routing, but can't support MPLS label switching?
> >
> Maybe these inferior technologies will win, due to the marketing strength of
> DC solutions. Or maybe DC will later figure out the fundamental aspect in
> tunneling cost, and invent even-better-MPLS, which is entirely possible now
> that we have a bit more understanding how we use MPLS.
>
Looking back at history (VXLAN or the Google's Espresso "architecture") I'm not holding my breath for anything reasonable coming out of the DC camp....

adam