Re: [trill] TRILL Resilient Distribution Trees, who have read it?

[Thomas Narten <[e-mail]>]

Hi.

Per the Atlanta minutes:

> Donald Eastlake (Huawei, co-Chair): OK how many people have read this
> draft? That's a pretty small number so I suggest a message to the list
> urging people to read this draft.
> 
> Thomas Narten (IBM): I have a high level question. How important is
> this document to the core of what we have to do as a WG? Seems like
> this assumes you have a distribution tree, which we have now, and the
> model is that if something goes wrong you just re-build the
> tree. Maybe there is a brief period during which things don't
> work. What we are doing here is building up a stand-by path. How
> important is this? Do we know that convergence is too slow? It seems
> to be to be pre-mature to work on this.
> 
> Donald: I agree that that is the relevant question. How important is
> this draft? Perhaps you should post that question to the list.

I'm asking this question on the list.

Thomas