Greetings All, Please disregard this announcement. A corrected announcement will be sent shortly. Thank you, RFC Editor On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 04:00:55PM -0700, RFC Editor wrote: > > A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. > > > RFC 6329 > > Title: IS-IS Extensions Supporting IEEE 802.1aq > Shortest Path Bridging > Author: D. Fedyk, Ed., > P. Ashwood-Smith, Ed., > D. Allan, A. Bragg, > P. Unbehagen > Status: Standards Track > Stream: IETF > Date: April 2012 > Mailbox: Donald.Fedyk@alcatel-lucent.com, > Peter.AshwoodSmith@huawei.com, > david.i.allan@ericsson.com, > nbragg@ciena.com, > unbehagen@avaya.com > Pages: 37 > Characters: 88465 > Updates/Obsoletes/SeeAlso: None > > I-D Tag: draft-ietf-isis-ieee-aq-05.txt > > URL: http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc6329.txt > > 802.1aq Shortest Path Bridging (SPB) has been standardized by the IEEE > as the next step in the evolution of the various spanning tree and > registration protocols. 802.1aq allows for true shortest path > forwarding in a mesh Ethernet network context utilizing multiple equal > cost paths. This permits it to support much larger Layer 2 topologies, > with faster convergence, and vastly improved use of the mesh > topology. Combined with this is single point provisioning for logical > connectivity membership, which includes point-to-point, > point-to-multipoint, and multipoint-to-multipoint variations. This > memo documents the IS-IS changes required to support this IEEE > protocol and provides some context and examples. [STANDARDS-TRACK] > > This document is a product of the IS-IS for IP Internets Working Group of the IETF. > > This is now a Proposed Standard Protocol. > > STANDARDS TRACK: This document specifies an Internet standards track > protocol for the Internet community,and requests discussion and suggestions > for improvements. Please refer to the current edition of the Internet > Official Protocol Standards (STD 1) for the standardization state and > status of this protocol. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. > > This announcement is sent to the IETF-Announce and rfc-dist lists. > To subscribe or unsubscribe, see > http://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce > http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/mailman/listinfo/rfc-dist > > For searching the RFC series, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfcsearch.html. > For downloading RFCs, see http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html. > > Requests for special distribution should be addressed to either the > author of the RFC in question, or to rfc-editor@rfc-editor.org. Unless > specifically noted otherwise on the RFC itself, all RFCs are for > unlimited distribution. > > > The RFC Editor Team > Association Management Solutions, LLC >
