Re: [Isis-wg] Please send liaison to IEEE from IS-IS

[Alia Atlas <[e-mail]>]

Great, thanks!

On Jun 19, 2017 12:53 PM, "Russ Housley" <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I’ll do it later today.
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> Russ
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> On Jun 19, 2017, at 12:14 PM, Alia Atlas <[e-mail]> wrote:
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> Russ & Dan,
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> Can you take care of formally sending the below as a liaison response?
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> Thanks,
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> Alia
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> Colleagues,
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> 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.
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> 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
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> The ISIS Working Group does not currently see that it has additional work
> now that IEEE Std 802.1AC-2016 is available.
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> Warmest regards,
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> Alia Atlas, IETF Routing Area Director
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> Chris Hopps, ISIS Working Group Chair
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> Hannes Gredler, ISIS Working Group Chair
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