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[Danny McPherson <danny@ambernetworks.com>]

> 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".

Yeah, that's it...  That's what I said *8^/

> 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.

What I said is that an edge-only model is much cleaner,
it's just that some folks seem to be more inclined to glue 
a bunch stuff together than to design something expressly
for this purpose.  

I'm certain that the market will decide, it usually does.
And with the thrust of Cisco (and Juniper) marketing folks
behind it, there's little doubt.  Then again, in a few years
when something new is being designed expressly for this 
purpose [because of scaling and operational issues, etc..], 
we'll get a chance to do it all over again (again).  

-danny (who's ideas may or may not reflect the views 
        of his employer) 


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