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Re: [ns] Info about ns..
MPLambdaS is indeed an internet draft
draft-awduche-mpls-te-optical-02.txt. But this is a very funny joke
(I heard of electricity over IP but was wondering where it came from. :)
- Haobo
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Leonard Miller wrote:
> MPLampS may be an actual IETF draft, but it is a spoof, an April Fools
> joke. The announcement and summary of this draft is given below.
>
> --Len Miller
>
> From: [email protected]
> Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-bala-mplamps-00.txt
> To: IETF-Announce: ;
>
> --NextPart
>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
>
>
> Title : MPLampS: Electricity over IP (with an MPLS
> control
> plane)
> Author(s) : B. Rajagopalan
> Filename : draft-bala-mplamps-00.txt
> Pages : 7
> Date : 11-Sep-00
>
> Mostly Pointless Lamp Switching (MPLampS) is an architecture for
> carrying electricity over IP (with an MPLS control plane). MPLampS
> has the potential to dramatically lower the price, ease the
> distribution and usage, and improve manageability of delivering
> electricity. This draft is motivated by such drafts as SONET/SDH
> over IP/MPLS [2,3] (with apologies to their authors). Readers of
> the previous drafts have been observed scratching their heads and
> muttering, 'What next?'. This draft answers that question.
> This draft has also been written as a public service. It was
> recently announced that the routing area will consider work items of
> the form 'foo-over-MPLS'. There are possibly many who are wondering
> how to exploit this opportunity and write random drafts to achieve
> prominence in the MPLS area. This draft illustrates the key
> ingredients that go into producing any 'foo-over-MPLS' draft and may
> be used as a template for all such work.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-bala-mplamps-00.txt
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP. Login with the
> username
> "anonymous" and a password of your e-mail address. After logging in,
> type "cd internet-drafts" and then
> "get draft-bala-mplamps-00.txt".
>
> Satish Kumar wrote:
> >
> > > Dear partners
> > > I want to use ns for simulating the functionality of MPLAmbdaS. Do you
> > > know if it supports it?
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > > Tziouvaras Chrysostomos
> > > ICS Researcher
> > >
> >
> > I dont know what exactly MPLAmbdaS means. Contributed code for MPLS is
> > available if that's of any relevance!
> >
> > Satish
>
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