The IESG has approved the following document: - 'TRILL: Appointed Forwarders' (draft-ietf-trill-rfc6439bis-05.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Alia Atlas and Deborah Brungard. A URL of this Internet Draft is: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-rfc6439bis/ Technical Summary TRILL supports multi-access LAN (Local Area Network) links where a single link can have multiple end stations and TRILL switches attached. Where multiple TRILL switches are attached to a link, native traffic to and from end stations on that link is handled by a subset of those TRILL switches called "Appointed Forwarders", with the intent that native traffic in each VLAN be handled by at most one TRILL switch. This document clarifies and updates the Appointed Forwarder mechanism. It updates RFC 6325, updates RFC 7177, and obsoletes RFC 6439. Working Group Summary WG has discussed this for 2 years. The consensus seemed reasonable. Document Quality There are no existing implementations, but Huawei plans to implement this draft. Personnel Document shephered: Susan Hares Responsible AD: Alia Atlas
