RE: IEEE 802.1 WG liaison letter to the IETF

["Nurit Sprecher" <nurit.sprecher@SeabridgeNetworks.com>]

Hi Don, 
It is clearly stated in the liaison that  "We have not examined the
detailed architectural ramifications of MAC address encapsulation in
conjunction with VLAN tagging, beyond the uses presently being
standardized as P802.1ah Provider Backbone Bridging.". The IEEE should
still approve this kind of behavior (turning of broadcast and othe
linkages, etc. as you mention below). That was exactly the decision in
the last IETF meeting. 
In the last IETF CCAMP meeting it was decided that any further work on
GELS should first be approved by the IEEE 802.1 community. Otherwise, we
re-start with the discussion 
Regards,
Nurit.

-----Original Message-----
From: Don Fedyk [mailto:dwfedyk@nortel.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 17:55
To: Nurit Sprecher; Adrian Farrel; ccamp@ops.ietf.org
Cc: Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel.be
Subject: RE: IEEE 802.1 WG liaison letter to the IETF

Hi Nurit 

It is true that the data plane 12-bit S-VID translation is part of
standards, but then so is using a VID/MAC as a static configured path
known as PBT. 

However in order to have the above schemes work with the existing
Ethernet control plane enabled at a minimum partitioning of the VID
space, turning of broadcast and other linkages between the Ethernet
control plane still need to be standardized. We have discussed all this
before.

Regards,
Don 



> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org
> [mailto:owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Nurit Sprecher
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 12:37 PM
> To: Adrian Farrel; ccamp@ops.ietf.org
> Cc: Nurit Sprecher; Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel.be
> Subject: RE: IEEE 802.1 WG liaison letter to the IETF
> 
> Hi,
> Please note that according to the liaison from the IEEE, currently the

> only standard behavior is the 12-bit S-VID translation.
> That means that we can go on with the work done on the 12-bits 
> Ethernet label encoding technique. We have the certification.
> Regards,
> Nurit.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org
> [mailto:owner-ccamp@ops.ietf.org] On Behalf Of Adrian Farrel
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 16:05
> To: ccamp@ops.ietf.org
> Subject: Fw: IEEE 802.1 WG liaison letter to the IETF
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Those of you working on GELS stuff may find material in this liaison 
> (which will inevitably also get posted on the IETF site).
> 
> Adrian
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <dromasca@avaya.com>
> To: "IESG" <iesg@ietf.org>; <iab@ietf.org>
> Cc: <l2vpn@ietf.org>; <ccamp-chairs@tools.ietf.org>; "Tony Jeffree" 
> <tony@jeffree.co.uk>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 2:55 PM
> Subject: IEEE 802.1 WG liaison letter to the IETF
> 
> 
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> The IEEE 802.1 Working Group approved the following liaison letter to 
> the IETF, containing clarifications in response to several queries 
> related to the use of IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tags.
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http://www.ieee802.org/1/files/public/docs2006/liaison-contrib-to-ietf-m
ef-dsl-forum-0706.pdf
> 
> Please distribute this letter to the interested Working Groups that 
> are not included in the distribution list.
> 
> Dan
> (wearing the hat of IEEE 802.1 WG liaison to the IETF)
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