The IESG has received a request from the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links WG (trill) to consider the following document: - 'Directory Assisted TRILL Encapsulation' <draft-ietf-trill-directory-assisted-encap-09.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 2018-03-06. 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 This draft describes how data center networks can benefit from non- RBridge nodes performing TRILL encapsulation with assistance from a directory service. The file can be obtained via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-directory-assisted-encap/ IESG discussion can be tracked via https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-directory-assisted-encap/ballot/ The following IPR Declarations may be related to this I-D: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/3045/