Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) over Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL)
draft-mme-trill-fcoe-05

The following is some background for this draft, please forward it
to IESG along with this request ...

This draft was discussed on the trill list, no objections
to the publication of this draft in the Independent Stream
were raised.

The draft's abstract says:
"Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) and TRILL are two emerging
standards in the data center environment. While these two protocols
are seemingly unrelated, they have a very similar behavior in the
forwarding plane, as both perform hop-by-hop forwarding over
Ethernet, modifying the packet's MAC addresses at each hop. This
document describes an architecture for the integrated deployment of
these two protocols.

It's lead author said:
"Some of the reviewer comments, almost sound like they are
based on the theory that this draft should be a survey document of
different ways to do FCoE combined with TRILL. While such a survey
might be valuable, I do not think that is the main emphasis of this
document ... This draft is just trying to explain one way to do FCoE
in cooperation with TRILL.

Thanks, Nevil (ISE)

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Nevil Brownlee (ISE), rfc-ise@rfc-editor.org