Re: Last Call: 'Transport of Ethernet Frames over L2TPv3' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-l2tpext-pwe3-ethernet)
Jari Arkko <[email protected]>
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Authors, WG, Do we have answers / suggested text for Dan's issues below? If possible, I would like to get an agreed resolution to this by Wednesday, before the next IESG telechat. Thanks, --Jari Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote: >I have a few questions related to the use of the terms Ethernet and VLAN >in this I-D: > >1. The I-D speaks about 'Ethernet' but does not provide any reference. >What version of the Ethernet standard is targeted here? The latest >approved version of the Ethernet standard is IEEE Std 802.3-2005, but >the IEEE 802.3 WG also has in works an extension of the frame size as >IEEE 802.3as. One cannot talk about Ethernet PDU and MTU without a >proper reference. >2. The I-D speaks about 'Ethernet VLAN'. Strictly speaking there is no >such thing, Virtual LANs are being defined by IEEE 802.1 and not only >for Ethernet. However accepting terminology license based on the >de-facto reality that most if not all VLANs run over Ethernet, there >still is a need to specify if the document refers to IEEE 802.1Q VLANs >(one 12-bit tag) or IEEE 802.1ad which accommodate multiple tags and >introduce the concepts of Customer VLAN and Service VLAN. Maybe the >VLANs referred in this I-D are transparent to the type of VLANs that are >being connected, but even so there should be text explaining this. > >Dan > > > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: The IESG [mailto:[email protected]] >>Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 6:07 PM >>To: IETF-Announce >>Cc: [email protected] >>Subject: Last Call: 'Transport of Ethernet Frames over >>L2TPv3' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-l2tpext-pwe3-ethernet) >> >>The IESG has received a request from the Layer Two Tunneling >>Protocol Extensions WG to consider the following document: >> >>- 'Transport of Ethernet Frames over L2TPv3 ' >> <draft-ietf-l2tpext-pwe3-ethernet-07.txt> as a Proposed Standard >> >>The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and >>solicits final comments on this action. Please send any >>comments to the [email protected] or [email protected] mailing lists >>by 2006-06-26. >> >>The file can be obtained via >>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-l2tpext-pwe3-et >>hernet-07.txt >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>IETF-Announce mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce >> >> >> > > > > >