RE: Draft charter for L2VPN: Perfect LAN emulation

[email protected] Tue, 27 May 2003 20:23:50 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.ppvpn
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello,

I agree with Matt.  I would say "IEEE 802.1 bridging" instead of saying
"802.1D bridging" so it can encompass Q, s, w, etc.

Thanks,
-Ben

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> What I think is important, and what I think we need to have in the
> charter, is transparency.  Standard Ethernet devices and existing
> protocols must be able to operate over a L2VPN without alteration.  My
> suggested wording on the issue was (from previous email) was:
>
> "The WG will drive for solutions that are transparent to higher layer
> protocols such as 802.1D bridging and IP.  Optimizations to a basic
> transparent architecture may be developed to foster more efficient
> transport in special cases (such as IP only transport). "
>
> That's transparency.   Perfect emulation wasn't on my radar.
>
> - Matt