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IEEE 802.1 closing Plenary 96-03-14 LaJolla, Ca. 2pm
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 3 resolutions to affirm the work so far, record agreement and set direction.
        1. Adopt an Architecture:
        2. Intention to standardize a basic, one level or flat addressed,
           tag format.
        3. Intention for future work on a complementary two level or
           hierarchical addressed tag format.
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 **** 802.1 Resolves:
 - To adopt an architecture for vLANs which provides interoperability
   between different vLAN technologies (e.g., port based, address based,
   protocol based) and formats.  (Such a range of techniques is required
   by the wide application space of vLANs.)
 - The architecture specifically provides for effective interoperability
   between regions of the network in which the MAC addresses of frames are
   those of the communicating end stations (a flat addressing approach)
   and regions in which frames are addressed from switch to switch, for
   scalability to very large networks (a hierarchtical addressing approach).
*****    Moved: Hart   Seconded: Wakerly    yes:32   no:0   abstain:1
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 ***** Resolved
 802.1 had achieved consensus on

The frame formats for 1-level addressing.  They will be:

Enet/802.3 media
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­ DA ­ SA ­  E-type ­ vLAN ­   ...remainder of          ­  new  ­
­    ­    ­  vLAN_1 ­  ID  ­      original frame        ­  FCS  ­
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                              (includes E-type/length)

802.5 / FDDI Media
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­AC­FC­DA­SA­routing­ SNAP-    ­ E-Type ­ vLAN ­...remainder of ­ new ­                  
­  ­  ­  ­  ­       ­  header  ­ vLAN_1 ­  ID  ­ original frame ­ FCS ­                  
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Token       present                            (translated if original was                                  
Ring        if                                   802.3/Ethernet)                                            
only        RII=1                                                                                           

Moved: PJ Singh
Seconded: Floyd Backes   yes:30  no:1   Abstain:2

  Note: As it turns out, PJ is not a voting member (yet).
        This was not noted until after the meeting had adjourned,
        and as the proposal has the undeniable support of 802.1,
        the Motion stands as carried.

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***** Resolved:
802.1 will support scalability to very large networks by developing the
two-level addressing model provided for in the architecture.
   Moved: Hart,  Second:Chin       yes:33   no:0   Abstain:1
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