Aaron, Out of curiosity - if you are interested in SR, where are you getting your information from if not IETF (SPRING)? As for history - we (at Redback) have published 1st draft describing SR-MPLS data plane in 2003 (LDP control plane).
Regards, Jeff > On Sep 6, 2020, at 09:53, Saku Ytti via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org> wrote: > > 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 > > -- > ++ytti
