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

[Eric Gray]

Anoop,

	Look for "Tentative Consensus" in the presentation on 
"Changes from -06 to -07", given by Donald Eastlake (III).
It's from the minutes available at:

http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/07dec/minutes/trill.txt

--
Eric Gray
Principal Engineer
Ericsson  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Anoop Ghanwani [mailto:anoop at brocade.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2008 1:56 PM
> To: James Carlson
> Cc: Dinesh G Dutt; Eric Gray; Rbridge at postel.org; Joe Touch
> Subject: RE: [rbridge] Consensus Check: Configure ports to 
> disable end station traffic
> 
>  
> 
> > -----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
>