The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Directory Assisted TRILL Encapsulation' (draft-ietf-trill-directory-assisted-encap-11.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-directory-assisted-encap/ Technical Summary This draft describes how data network can benefit from non-Rbridge nodes peforming TRILL encapsulation with assistance from a directory servicve. RFC7067 and RFC8171 describe the framework nand methods for for TRILL edge Rbridges to get MAC&VLAN <---> Edge RBridge mappings from a directory service instead of flooding unknown destination MAC addresses across a TRILL domain. If it has the needed directory information, any node even an non-RBRidge node, can perform TRILL data packet encapsulation. This specification describes the benefits of and a scheme for non-RBridge nodes performing TRILL encapsulation. Working Group Summary A complete directory service solution for TRILL was one of the key additions to the base specification needed by the industry. The TRILL working group designed the whole solution and its component in discussions over 3-4 years. This last group of specifications depended on the approval of earlier specifications. Document Quality Huawei plans an implementation of the protocol. Personnel Document Shepherd: Susan Hares AD: Alia Atlas
