RE: Draft charter for L2VPN: Perfect LAN emulation
[email protected] Tue, 27 May 2003 20:23:50 -0400 (EDT)
| Newsgroups | gmane.ietf.ppvpn |
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| 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 --------------------- > 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