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[Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>]

Danny,

> > You made a failry long list of various BGP features involved in
> > providing BGP/MPLS VPN support. Would you care to elaborate on the
> > list of NMS features required.
> 
> I guess you can take the list that's used to manage the 
> configurations [there is one?] for the above and it would 
> return the majority.
> 
> Heck, the NMS could simply consist of a few perl scripts 
> and a bunch of flat files, used for statically configuring 
> the VPN and routing information in PEs.  That's pretty much 
> how service provider networks are managed (i.e., configured, 
> policy applied, etc..) today.

I see - according to your view all that a service provider needs
in order to offer a competitive VPN services is "a few perl scripts 
and a bunch of flat files".

Let me suggest that we'll leave it up to the market to decide
whether such service would be competitive againsts the service
build around BGP/MPLS VPNs.

Yakov.

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