Hey,

On Sun, 6 Sep 2020 at 04:26, Aaron Gould via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote:

> Does anyone know the scope on why we have 2 names for this ?  Seriously, was 
> it one of those things where a vendor started doing it first (pre-standard) 
> as sr, and then ietf started standardizing it as spring ? …or was it always 
> being standardized pre-vendor implementation and there was a disagreement 
> within ietf or elsewhere ?  or… was there a conscious decision amongst the 
> inventors to actually call it both sr and spring ?  or is their actually 
> something different about each one and I’m wrong in thinking they are 2 names 
> for the same technology.

If you don't like the names, I have others.

SPRING is the IETF working group name - Source Packet Routing in Networking
Segment Routing is under SPRING

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