Hi Wim,

> I agree that if you look into the details RFC8663 from a data-plane operation 
> is very similar to CRH. It uses a tag and derives a destination ipv6 address 
> from it.
> On top it if you look at the requirements, the following is possible with 
> RFC8663
> 
>       • It can steer the packet through a specific path. Implementations 
> exists which do well beyond 8
>       • No new VPN encapsulation is required
>       • No new service chaining needed and various options possible.
>       • Compliant to SPRING
>       • Uses MPLS but it is used here as a lookup tag, not any different than 
> the CRH proposal. In essence if you look at the details you can implement 
> this with a complete v6 infrastructure and use the tag as a steering 
> function. And uses 32 bit.
> 
> As such I don’t see why we need another encap to achieve something we already 
> can do and is available in various implementations and is as efficient on the 
> wire (looking at 32 bit, which is what people agree upon)

RFC8663 doesn't work between domains that are not directly connected. I want a 
solution where the connectivity between the domains is plain IPv6 (e.g. the 
internet). I have tried this with Andrew using CRH and that works fine. Part of 
the SR domain was in Kenya, part of it was in The Netherlands, and we could use 
CRH without any problems. That isn't possible using MPLS.

Cheers,
Sander

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