[rbridge] Working Group Last Call: draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-protocol-13.txt

[Donald Eastlake]

The changes between the -12 and -13 versions of the base protocol
draft were sufficiently extensive that we have decided that another
Working Group Last Call is required. This message starts a two week
WGLC which ends July 15th.

Thanks,
Donald and Erik
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On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 5:45 PM, <Internet-Drafts at ietf.org> wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts
> directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links Working Group of the IETF.
>
>        Title           : Rbridges: Base Protocol Specification
>        Author(s)       : D. Eastlake 3rd, D. Dutt, S. Gai, A. Ghanwani, R. Perlman
>        Filename        : draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-protocol-13.txt
>        Pages           : 102
>        Date            : 2009-6-29
>
> RBridges provide optimal pair-wise forwarding with zero
>   configuration, safe forwarding even during periods of temporary
>   loops, and support for multipathing of both unicast and multicast
>   traffic. They achieve these goals using IS-IS routing and
>   encapsulation of traffic with a header that includes a hop count.
>
>   RBridges are compatible with previous IEEE 802.1 customer bridges as
>   well as IPv4 and IPv6 routers and end nodes. They are as invisible to
>   current IP routers as bridges are and, like routers, they terminate
>   the bridge spanning tree protocol.
>
>   The design supports VLANs and optimization of the distribution of
>   multi-destination frames based on VLAN and IP derived multicast
>   groups.  It also allows forwarding tables to be sized according to
>   the number of RBridges (rather than the number of end nodes), which
>   allows internal forwarding tables to be substantially smaller than in
>   conventional bridges.
>
> A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-protocol-13.txt
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/