Eric Rosen wrote:
Joe> Many of these discussions (layer 2 VPNs, in particular) would be betterThey defined ethernet. It is they who would best determine how to carry ethernet over another protocol and keep current ethernet correctness.
Joe> served by occuring within the context of their original host
Joe> organization (i.e., IEEE for ethernet over IP), since it was those
Joe> organizations that defined those LANs, and they who would best comment
Joe> on the correctness (or lack) of proposed solutions.
IEEE is certainly not the right place to determine how to carry ethernet
data and control frames over IP networks.
Certainly IETF-ers would be useful participants, but keep in mind that transport protocol discussions usually focus at the transport layer (in this case, ethernet) with experts thereof, not at the IP layer.
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While I am not a big fan of emulating ethernet networks over IP networks, thisThat may be the case, i.e., case for a joint group, but this is clearly outside sole-IETF scope per se.
is a pretty clear example of a topic that has both IETF and IEEE components,
and which needs attention from BOTH groups.
Joe