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

["Rajiv Asati (rajiva)" <rajiva () cisco com>]

Mark,

> about leveraging SR to push native IPv6 support into MPLS, 

Segment routing (SR) could/would certainly work with single-stack v6 and enable MPLS forwarding. 

Cheers,
Rajiv

> On May 5, 2014, at 3:36 AM, "Mark Tinka" <mark.tinka () seacom mu> wrote:
>
> > On Monday, May 05, 2014 09:27:37 AM Vitkovský Adam wrote:
> >
> > You mean the SR right?
>
> No, I mean:
>
>    draft-george-mpls-ipv6-only-gap-05
>
> The draft looks at issues that need to be fixed for MPLS to 
> run in a single-stack IPv6 network.
>
> Of course, there is other work that is looking at fixing 
> LDPv6 as well, as you know.
>
> At the recent MPLS SDN Congress in Paris, I asked some folk 
> about leveraging SR to push native IPv6 support into MPLS, 
> but they didn't seem like that was a key application yet. So 
> while SR is promising, I think it's not a solution for this 
> particular use-case yet.
>
> Mark.