[rbridge] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-af-04.txt

[Donald Eastlake]

This draft incorporates the changes in
http://www.postel.org/pipermail/rbridge/2011-May/004450.html

Thanks,
Donald
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Date: Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 3:03 PM
Subject: New Version Notification for draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-af-04.txt

A new version of I-D, draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-af-04.txt has been
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Filename:        draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-af
Revision:        04
Title:           RBridges: Appointed Forwarders
Creation date:   2011-07-07
WG ID:           trill
Number of pages: 23

Abstract:
  The IETF TRILL (TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links)
  protocol provides least cost pair-wise data forwarding without
  configuration in multi-hop networks with arbitrary topology, safe
  forwarding even during periods of temporary loops, and support for
  multipathing of both unicast and multicast traffic. TRILL
  accomplishes this by using IS-IS (Intermediate System to Intermediate
  System) link state routing and by encapsulating traffic using a
  header that includes a hop count. Devices that implement TRILL are
  called RBridges.

  TRILL supports multi-access LAN (Local Area Network) links that can
  have multiple end stations and RBridges attached. Where multiple
  RBridges are attached to a link, native traffic to and from end
  stations on that link is handled by a subset of those RBridges called
  Appointed Forwarders, with the intent that native traffic in each
  VLAN (Virtual LAN) be handled by at most one RBridge.  The purpose of
  this document is to improve the documentation of the Appointed
  Forwarder mechanism.



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