Re: Draft charter for L2VPN

Monday, May 12, 2003, 9:43:57 AM, Yakov Rekhter wrote:
> Assume that there is a (rough) consensus on splitting the PPVPN WG
> into two (which is yet TBD), I'd like the following to be added to 
> the L2 VPN charter:

>    The effort will produce a small number of approaches that are based
>    on collections of individual technologies. The goal is to foster 
>    interoperability among implementations of a specific approach. 
>    Standardization of specific approaches will be gauged on (I)SP support.  

Please state why you believe this should be in the charter and what
exactly your proposed text would mean.

Monday, May 12, 2003, 10:34:16 AM, Eric Rosen wrote:
> Two  L2VPN  charter issues  that  come up  frequently  are  (a) whether  ARP
> Mediation  (for  allowing  IP traffic  on  a  p2p  link between  two  unlike
> attachment  circuits) falls  into the  charter,  and (b)  whether IPLS  (for
> allowing LAN-like connectivity among a  set of IP routers, without requiring
> MAC learning,  BPDUs, etc.)  falls into the  charter.  If there  is actually
> going to  be an L2VPN charter, I'd  like to see this  settled, preferably in
> favor of including these efforts. 

I'd like to see more opinions on this.

Monday, May 12, 2003, 2:59:41 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> I know that this does not matter to some, but IMHO if this new group
> happens, an indication of the WG cooperation with IEEE 802.1 should be
> part of the charter to add clarity.

Noted. Thanks.

Alex