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<reference anchor="I-D.ietf-grow-va-mpls-innerlabel" target="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-grow-va-mpls-innerlabel-00">
   <front>
      <title>Proposal to use an inner MPLS label to identify the remote ASBR VA</title>
      <author initials="X." surname="Xu" fullname="Xiaohu Xu">
         <organization>Huawei</organization>
      </author>
      <author initials="P." surname="Francis" fullname="Paul Francis">
         <organization>MPI-SWS</organization>
      </author>
      <date month="September" day="23" year="2009" />
      <abstract>
	 <t>The draft &quot;MPLS Tunnels for Virtual Aggregation&quot;
[I-D.ietf-grow-va-mpls] specifies how MPLS is used as the tunneling
protocol for Virtual Aggregation (VA).  The -00 version of that draft
specifies only one level of labels, with the result that one Label
Switched Path (LSP) for every remote ASBR must be established.  For
large ISPs, this can amount to a large number of LSPs.  This draft
proposes adding the option of using an inner label to identify the
remote ASBR.  Either an outer label or an IP tunnel is used to reach
the local ASBR.  When MPLS is used as the tunneling protocol, this
reduces the number of LSPs to the number of local border routers
(ASBR).
	 </t>
      </abstract>
   </front>
   <seriesInfo name="Internet-Draft" value="draft-ietf-grow-va-mpls-innerlabel-00" />
   
</reference>
