Documents available: Formatted copy of "Dancing Bears" also sent out on mailer. Draft 2 of 802.1p (dated March 6, altho its the same as on server...) paper "A robust Tree: Active Topology Maintenance in Reconfiguring Bridged Local Area Networkds (STP+) -------------------------------------------------------- Notes on IEEE 802.1 premeeting, 96/3/11, 9am, LaJolla, Ca. (R.V.Slager) -------------------------------------------------------- What do we need to standardize for interoperability? -Frame Formats 1 -basic ---relayed service 1 connection interoperability reference1 -Forwarding Rules 1 -Meaning of vlan & its type 2 -useful connection -Loop control 3 -real topologies -Autoconfiguration/autoconnect 4 -customer expectations -naming of vlans - how to refer to a vlan 5 -manageability -basic statistics 5 ------------------------- vLAN Standard Broad Economic appeal -for success, must not be damagingly suboptimal in any applicaitoon space Structured solution -to meet scale, (up & down) ----------------------- Objectives at this meeting Enough agreement on framework/architecture to make format & forwarding rules initial decision Clear partitioning of work what to tackle now, what later ---------------------------------- Contributions: Dancing Bears, Steve Horowitz. "Two layer forwarding,"Norm Finn ATM & vLans - Krishna - (FORE) vLANs & Media - John Bartlett Low End Tagging Protocol - John Bartlett --------------------------------- Steve Horowitz, spoke on his paper... "Dancing Bears" ------------------------------------- John Wakerly... spoke in lieu of Norm Finn... 2 layer forwarding One-level, short frame 6 6 2 2 ... 4 Dst Src Ty VID Remainder of orig frame ... CRC ------ (4 extra bytes ...) (CRC recalculated...) for FDDI this infor would be in a SNAP header... - - - - - - - - - - - two-level, long format 6 6 2 2 --4-- ................. 4 VDST VSRC Tz VID CRC fix Original frame Original CRC - - - - - - - - - - - See (paper?) sent out on eMail... Norn Finn ... ---------------------