[rbridge] Draft Minneapolis minutes

[Erik Nordmark]

Radia Perlman wrote:
> A couple of corrections:
> 
> Under "VLANs" you don't say what was presented, just the discussion 
> afterwards.
> Here's a summary of what was presented:
> 
> Presented a modified design, where the "egress RBridge" is included in 
> the header
> (between the outer header, which bridges would see, and the inner frame 
> which is
> exactly as transmitted by the endnode). Forwarding is to the egress 
> RBridge.
> This enables the core to forward solely based on egress RBridge, and not 
> need
> to have endnode addresses in forwarding tables. It also means that only 
> RBridges
> attached to a particular VLAN need to know about the endnodes in that VLAN.

I'll add that.

> So for simplicity, I'd remove:
> 
> Radia Perlman: I wasn't provided with the whole problem, just told to
> develop a spanning protocol.
> 
> and replace it with:
> Radia Perlman: At that point in time they would never have
> considered adding an encapsulation header. It would have made
> the devices too complex and there were hard limits on
> frame sizes.

ok

    Erik