To: Ayman Sayed <asayed@fox.nstn.ca>
Cc: p8021 <p8021@nic.hep.net>, "Martin McNealis." <mmcneali@cisco.com>,
        "Alonge Ken" <alonge_ken@po.gis.prc.com>
From: Floyd Backes/HQ/3Com <Floyd_Backes@3mail.3Com.COM>
Date: 22 Nov 95  7:35:16 EDT
Subject: Re: REVISION TO SDE

 My understanding of what went on in Montreal is that there was a general
 acknowledgement of two main ways to think about VLANs, Protocol sensitive
 (i.e. "implicitly" tagged) and explicitly tagged VLANs. I thought Keith's
 presentation pointed this out very clearly. Keith implied that 802.1 will
 have useful work to do in the area of "mapping" between the two schemes.
 I agree.

 My impression from the presentation given to 802.1 by 802.10 was that 802.10
 was NOT particularly suited to VLAN tagging, and that 802.1 would investigate
 the issue further in order to determine what the best solution was.

 I'm surprised to read that the issue of modifying SDE came up at the exec. I
 was not aware that 802.0 was that place to discuss technical issues regarding
 packet formats.

floyd.

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