Re: [Isis-wg] New Layer2 extensions to ISIS - thorough review will be required

Stewart Bryant <stbryant@cisco.com> Mon, 26 April 2010 13:28 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Isis-wg] New Layer2 extensions to ISIS - thorough review will be required
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> > From and 802.1aq standpoint we are happy with no new PDUs.  IS-IS carries multiple address families to date, a capability that we wanted to leverage.
Are the changes required by 802.1aq limited to simply adding (sub)TLVs 
to carry additional address families with no other changes whatsoever 
required to the protocol?

- Stewart