The IESG has received a request from the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links WG (trill) to consider the following document: - 'TRILL Distributed Layer 3 Gateway' <draft-ietf-trill-irb-13.txt> as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2016-06-24. Exceptionally, comments may be sent to iesg@ietf.org instead. In either case, please retain the beginning of the Subject line to allow automated sorting. Abstract The base TRILL protocol provides optimal pair-wise data frame forwarding for layer 2 intra-subnet traffic but not for layer 3 inter-subnet traffic. A centralized gateway solution is typically used for layer 3 inter-subnet traffic forwarding but has the following issues: The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-irb/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-irb/ballot/ No IPR declarations have been submitted directly on this I-D.