[rbridge] Proposed changes to the architecture based on IETF-70...

[James Carlson]

Eric Gray writes:
> Several people pointed out that the architecture should not assume a
> DRB election process will be used.  This is technically correct, and
> - for that reason - not directly something that needs consensus to
> change, at least in theory.

Could someone please post the problem statement?  Besides just making
the DRB election "optional," I think it'd be good to have a summary
statement of what problem is solved by making it possible to run
without DRB election.

(I'm guessing this was discussed somewhere ... but I wasn't able to
locate it in the archives.)

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