[rbridge] Consensus Check: Configure ports to disable end station traffic

[Anoop Ghanwani]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: James Carlson [mailto:james.d.carlson at sun.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 10:42 AM
> To: Anoop Ghanwani
> Cc: Dinesh G Dutt; Eric Gray; Rbridge at postel.org; Joe Touch
> Subject: RE: [rbridge] Consensus Check: Configure ports to 
> disable end station traffic
> 
> Anoop Ghanwani writes:
> > I'd be interested in finding out what caused the editors to 
> send out 
> > the consensus check.  Obviously there was some discussion 
> about this 
> > at the Vancouver meeting and some folks must've thought it 
> was a good 
> > idea.
> 
> Please clarify.  Do you mean the rationale that the proposers 
> had for including the feature in the specification at all or 
> literally the reason for sending the confirmation email message?
> 
> If it's the latter, I don't understand.  Official business of 
> the IETF needs to take place on mailing lists, not in the 
> limited confines of in-person meetings.  See RFC 2418.

It's the latter...I'm wondering where the idea of
putting this in originated because I didn't see 
anything about it on the list until the consensus
check was sent out, and it must've been something
at the meeting that prompted the consensus check.

Anoop