Subject: I-D Action: draft-ietf-trill-directory-framework-03.txt

From: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 14:04:31 -0800

A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
 This draft is a work item of the Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links Working Group of the IETF.

	Title           : TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) Edge Directory Assistance Framework
	Author(s)       : Linda Dunbar
                          Donald Eastlake
                          Radia Perlman
                          Igor Gashinsky
	Filename        : draft-ietf-trill-directory-framework-03.txt
	Pages           : 16
	Date            : 2013-02-21

Abstract:
   Edge RBridges currently learn the mapping between MAC addresses
   and their egress RBridges by observing the data packets traversed
   or by the TRILL ESADI protocol. When ingress RBridge receives a
   data frame whose destination address (MAC&VLAN) that RBridge does
   not know, the data frame is flooded within the VLAN across the
   TRILL campus.

   This draft describes the framework for using directory services
   to assist edge RBridges by reducing multi-destination frames,
   particularly unknown unicast frames flooding, and ARP/ND,
   improving TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links)
   network scalability in environments such as data centers.

The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-trill-directory-framework

There's also a htmlized version available at:
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-trill-directory-framework-03

A diff from the previous version is available at:
http://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-trill-directory-framework-03

Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/