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Re: [L2tpext] [PWE3] An error in RFC 4446 "IANA Allocations for Pseudowire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3)"

Himanshu Shah <hshah@force10networks.com> Tue, 18 August 2009 13:40 UTC

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To: Jiang Yuan-long <yljiang@huawei.com>, "pwe3@ietf.org" <pwe3@ietf.org>
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There are a couple of drafts in L2VPN WG that uses this PW type (0x000B),
such as http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-l2vpn-arp-mediation-12
So it is not an error or problem in the RFC 3032. It is meant to carry IP payload without any data link headers.

Himanshu
Force10 networks






From: pwe3-bounces@ietf.org [mailto:pwe3-bounces@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Jiang Yuan-long
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Subject: [PWE3] An error in RFC 4446 "IANA Allocations for Pseudowire Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3)"

Hi, all:

I came accross an error in RFC 4446 "IANA Allocations for Pseudowire
Edge to Edge Emulation (PWE3)".

In Sec 3.2, it says:
"   0x000B  IP Layer2 Transport                              [RFC3032]"

it should be:
   0x000B  IP Layer2 Transport                        [draft-ietf-l2tpext-pwe3-ip]

The same problem also exists in web page version http://www.iana.org/assignments/pwe3-parameters.
I wonder how about the status of this expired WG draft, will any more work
continue on this document or just expired as it is?
I also wonder whether we should define a PW type for IP payload so that
everything on PW is possible.
Any comments?

   Thanks,
Yuanlong Jiang

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