The IESG has approved the following document: - 'TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links): Fine-Grained Labeling' (draft-ietf-trill-fine-labeling-07.txt) as Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ted Lemon and Brian Haberman. A URL of this Internet Draft is: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-fine-labeling/ Technical Summary: The TRILL base protocol supports labeling of TRILL Data packets with up to 4K IDs. However, there are applications that require more fine-grained labeling of data for configurable isolation based on different tenants, service instances, or the like. This document updates TRILL by specifying an optional extension that supports an additional 2**24 labels, called fine-grained labels (FGLs). Provisions for mixed networks of TRILL switches that do and do not support FGLs are provided. Working Group Summary: The two primary points of discussion in the WG were how to encode fine grained labels and how to handled mixed networks. Early versions of FGL, for maximum backwards compatibility with the TRILL base protocol, made a non-standard use of an Ethertype assigned to another group as part of FGL encoding, but this ws not allowed by the asignee of that Ethertype. So the encoding was changed to use a new Ethertype allocated for TRILL FGL. After discussion, the consensus of the working group was to use an encoding structure optimized for support by existing fast path silicon, although this is not the most compact encoding. For handling mixed networks, the problem to be solved was how to avoid giving an FGL TRILL Data packet to a TRILL switch not supporting FGL that might mishandle it. The WG decision was to avoid methods that would require silicon changes or additional shortest path calculation, yet have the protocol be robust against mixtures of old and new TRILL switches. Document Quality: The document has been reviewed by participants from the TRILL vendors that appear to plan to implement this specification. The document shepherd has reviewed the document in its most recent form. Personnel: Erik Nordmark is the Document Shepherd. Ted Lemon is the Responsible Area Director. IANA Note You will definitely want to process all the IANA considerations for draft-ietf-isis-rfc6326bis before attempting to make sense of the IANA considerations in this document.
