[rbridge] VLAN registration

[Joe Touch]

Caitlin Bestler wrote:
> 
> Dinesh Dutt wrote:
>> Donald,
>>
>> Next, are we going to specify what an Rbridge does for every single
>> IEEE
>> protocol ? I don't think so. 
...
>> I'd like to draw a clean demarcation of Rbridge functionality from
> IEEE
>> bridge functionality.
...
> I agree with this approach.
> 
> I suspect this boils down to where we think an RBridge fits in 802's 
> hierarchy. 
...
> 
> 802.1 has trouble keeping track of 802.1 projects. We don't want to go
> there.
> 
> A more stable approach is to view RBridge as a *consumer* of 802.1
> services.

This is why I wanted (and still want) to define a campus as emulating a 
single ethernet switch - where the IEEE defines that device, not us. 
That then defines all other behaviors as a derivative of that approach.

Joe

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