Re: [Isis-wg] Proposed Liaison response on Ethernet Jumbo Frames

[Alia Atlas <[e-mail]>]

I would like to send this liaison on June 15.  Please send any additional
comments.

Thanks,
Alia

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:15 PM, Alia Atlas <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> At the end of the ISIS WG meeting at IETF 98, I called attention to the
> recent liaison from IEEE -  https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1509/
> <https://datatracker.ietf.org/liaison/1509/>.  There was significant
> concern expressed about the decision to use a new EtherType instead of
> EtherType 88-70, which is widely deployed.
>
> Here is a proposed liaison response, which should also update you on
> progress that has been made in this area. I would prefer to get this
> liaison, with any improvements, agreed to by June 15.
>
> =========
> Colleagues,
>
> Thank you very much for your liaison on March 25.  We are happy to learn
> that IEEE now has a standard, IEEE Std 802.1AC-2016, for encoding LLC
> frames and that its use appears to be exactly as described in
> draft-ietf-isis-ext-eth-01.  There are a large number of pre-standard
> implementations and deployments of this functionality.
>
> With informal discussion, we were able to determine the current owner of
> EtherType 88-70 and have what we believe is the necessary statement so that
> this EtherType is now available for this functionality.  I would like to
> thank both Yaakov Stein, CTO RAD, for making this happen and David Aviv,
> CTO Radware.  As these types of challenges come up and have large impact,
> we would prefer to learn of them earlier so that we can try and assist
> sooner in the process.
>
> We are quite concerned about the allocation of a new EtherType given the
> extremely large deployment of this pre-standard common feature.  We would
> encourage the IEEE 802.1 Working Group to strongly consider updating IEEE
> Std 802.1AC to use the deployed EtherType 88-70 that is now available for
> this purpose.
>
> The ISIS Working Group will discuss whether there is additional work to do
> now that IEEE Std 802.1AC-2016 is available.
>
> Warmest regards,
> Alia Atlas, IETF Routing Area Director
> Chris Hopps, ISIS Working Group Chair
> Hannes Gredler, ISIS Working Group Chair
>
> =========
>
> Please also discuss whether there is additional ISIS work to be done.  I'm
> specifically thinking about sending hello packets at the MTU.
>
> Regards,
> Alia
>
>
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