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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.
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