“…Forwarding is based exclusively on control-plane-defined identifiers that are embedded in the tags/labels. We presented the omnipresent Ethernet (OE) concept in [6,7] as a source-routing+binary-routing solution. OE is an advance over CE enabling provisioning of services based on user needs beyond MAC-based forwarding, extending forwarding based on IPv4/v6, ports, or user-driven parameters.…”