[rbridge] Last Consensus Confirmations from Vancouver Meeting

[Radia Perlman]

That was my understanding on both points.

Radia

Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 wrote:
> There were two consensuses in the TRILL meeting in Vancouver that were
> posted (perhaps not too articulately) to this list for verification and
> are pasted at the end of this message. There has been discussion of
> these topics on the list and the overall consensus of the working group
> is that (1) there should be a way in TRILL to configure an Rbridge port
> such that end-station/native frames are not sent on that port and any
> received are discarded and (2) there should not be a way in TRILL to
> configure an Rbridge port such that it uses a global fixed source and
> destination MAC address as being a port to a point-to-point link to
> another Rbridge.
>
> Donald & Erik
>
>
>
> From: rbridge-bounces at postel.org [mailto:rbridge-bounces at postel.org] On
> Behalf Of Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
> Sent: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:34 PM
> To: Rbridge at postel.org
> Subject: [rbridge] Consensus Check: Configure ports to disable end
> station traffic
>
> This is a check via the mailing list to confirm or refute an apparent
> consensus at the Vancouver meeting taken from the minutes of that
> meeting:
>
>            Currently broadcast, unknown unicast, and
>       non-IP-derived multicast frames are output to all links. This is
>       wasteful if there are no end stations on the link. Provide that
>       a port can be configured so as to be disabled for end station
>       traffic.
>
> If no particular controversy arises over this in the next three weeks,
> We will declare it to be the working group consensus.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald & Erik
>
>
>
> From: rbridge-bounces at postel.org [mailto:rbridge-bounces at postel.org] On
> Behalf Of Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 11:27 PM
> To: Rbridge at postel.org
> Subject: [rbridge] Consensus Check: Against P2P Fixed Addresses Proposal
>
> This is a check via the mailing list to confirm or refute an apparent
> consensus at the Vancouver meeting taken from the minutes of that
> meeting:
>
> 		Against the proposal presented at IETF-70
>       for p2p link configuration permitting a fixed source and
>       destination address.
>
> If no particular controversy arises over this in the next three weeks,
> We will declare it to be the working group consensus.
>
> Thanks,
> Donald & Erik
>
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