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Probably. LDP on other hand - no. Not really.

How else were labels going to be distributed at a foundational level?

ISIS of course, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IS-IS ... precisely how it's done for SR+MLPS.

Hell, yeah.

Label distribution in BGP covered a lot of the most impactful use cases, RSVP_TE covered the next tier.