TRILL Working Group                                  Donald Eastlake 3rd
INTERNET-DRAFT                                          Stellar Switches
Intended status: Proposed Standard                        Anoop Ghanwani
                                                                 Brocade
                                                         Caitlin Bestler
                                                                 Quantum
                                                          Vishwas Manral
                                                             IP Infusion
Expires: April 23, 2010                                 October 24, 2010


                     RBridges: TRILL Header Options
               <draft-ietf-trill-rbridge-options-03.txt>


Abstract

   The TRILL base protocol specification [RFCtrill], specifies minimal
   hooks for TRILL Header options. This draft specifies the format for
   options and an initial set of options.


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Table of Contents

      1. Introduction............................................3
      1.1 Conventions used in this document......................3

      2. TRILL Header Options....................................4
      2.1 RBridge Option Handling Requirements...................5
      2.2 No Critical Surprises..................................6
      2.3 Options Format.........................................6
      2.3.1 Summary Bits and Bit Options.........................6
      2.3.2 TLV Option Format....................................8
      2.3.3 Marshalling of Options...............................9
      2.4 Conflict of Options....................................9

      3. Specific Bit Option....................................10
      3.1 ECN Bit Option........................................10

      4. Specific TLV Options...................................12
      4.1 Flow ID TLV Option....................................12
      4.2 Test/Pad Option.......................................13

      5. Additions to IS-IS.....................................14
      6. IANA Considerations....................................15
      7. Security Considerations................................15

      8. References.............................................16
      8.1 Normative References..................................16
      8.2 Informative References................................16

      Change History............................................17
      Version 00 to 02..........................................17
      Version 02 to 03..........................................17




















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1. Introduction

   The base TRILL protocol specification [RFCtrill] provides a TRILL
   Header options feature and describes minimal hooks to safely support
   that feature. But it does not specify the structure of options, their
   ordering, nor the details of any particular options. This draft
   specifies that format and some initial options

   Section 2 below describes the general principles of operation,
   format, and ordering of TRILL Header Options. Such options are of two
   kinds: bit encoded options and TLV (Type, Length, Value) encoded
   options.

   Section 3 describes a specific bit option while Section 4 describes
   specific TLV encoded options.



1.1 Conventions used in this document

   The terminology and acronyms defined in [RFCtrill] are used herein
   with the same meaning.

   In this documents, "IP" refers to both IPv4 and IPv6.

   The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
   "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
   document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119].
























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2. TRILL Header Options

   The TRILL Protocol includes an option feature in the TRILL Header
   (see [RFCtrill] Sections 3.5 and 3.8).  The 5-bit Op-Length header
   field gives the length of the options in units of 4 octets, which
   allows up to 124 octets of options area. If Op-Length is zero there
   are no options present; else, the options area follow immediately
   after the Ingress Rbridge Nickname field in the TRILL Header. The
   options area consists of bit options possibly followed by TLV
   options. Each TLV option present is 32-bit aligned.

   As described below, provision is made for both hop-by-hop options,
   which might affect any RBridge that receives a TRILL frame containing
   such an option, and ingress-to-egress options, which would only
   necessarily affect the RBridge(s) where a TRILL frame is
   decapsulated. Provision is also made for both "critical" and "non-
   critical" options. An RBridge receiving a frame with a critical
   option that affects it and that it does not implement MUST discard
   the frame as it is unsafe to process the frame without understanding
   the critical option.  Non-critical options can be safely ignored.

   Any option indicating a significant change in the way later parts of
   the frame are interpreted or structure MUST be a critical option. If
   such an option affect any fields that transit RBridges will examine,
   it MUST be a hop-by-hop critical option.

   Options also have a "mutability" flag that has a different meaning
   for ingress-to-egress options and for hop-by-hop options.

   For an ingress-to-egress option, the mutability flag indicates
   whether the value associated with the option can change at a transit
   RBridge (mutable options) or cannot so change (immutable options).
   For example, an ingress-to-egress security option could protect the
   value of an immutable ingress-to-egress option. But such a security
   option generally could not protect a mutable value as a transit
   RBridge could change that value but would not normally have the keys
   to recompute a signature or authentication code to take a changed
   value into account.

   For a non-critical hop-by-hop option, the mutability flag indicates
   whether a transit RBridge that does not implement the option is
   permitted (mutable) or not permitted (immutable) to remove the
   option. A transit RBridge is never required to remove a hop-by-hop
   options that it does not implement.

   For critical hop-by-hop options, the mutability flag is meaningless.
   If the RBridge does not implement the critical hop-by-hop option, it
   MUST drop the frame. If it does implement the critical hop-by-hop
   option, it will know whether or not it may/should/must remove it.
   For critical hop-by-hop options, the mutability flag is set to zero


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   ("immutable") on transmission and ignored on receipt.

      Note: Most RBridges implementations are expected to be optimized
      for simple and common cases of frame forwarding and processing.
      Although the hard limit on options length, their 32-bit alignment,
      and the presence of critical option summary bits as described
      below, are intended to assist in the efficient processing of
      frames with options, nevertheless the inclusion of options may
      cause frame processing using a "slow path" with inferior
      performance to "fast path" processing. Limited slow path
      throughput of such frames could cause them to be discarded.



2.1 RBridge Option Handling Requirements

   The requirements given in this section are in addition to all option
   handling requirements in [RFCtrill].

   All Rbridges MUST be able to detect whether there are any critical
   options present that are necessarily applicable to their processing
   of the frame as detailed below.  If they do not implement all such
   critical options present, they MUST discard the frame.

   Transit RBridges MUST transparently forward all immutable ingress-to-
   egress options in frames that they forward. Any changes made by a
   transit RBridge to a mutable ingress-to-egress option value MUST be a
   change permitted by the specification of that option.

   In addition, a transit RBridge:

   o  MAY add, if space is available, or remove, hop-by-hop options as
      specified for such hop-by-hop options;
   o  MAY change the value and/or length of a mutable ingress-to-egress
      option as permitted by that option's specification and provided
      there is enough room if lengthening the option;
   o  MUST adjust the length of the options area, including changing Op-
      Length in the TRILL header, as appropriate for any changes it has
      made in the options;
   o  MUST NOT add, remove, or re-order ingress-to-egress options.
   o  with regard to any non-critical hop-by-hop options that the
      transit RBridge does not implement, it MAY remove them if they are
      mutable but MUST transparently copy them when forwarding a frame
      if they are immutable.








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2.2 No Critical Surprises

   RBridges advertise the ingress-to-egress options that they support in
   their IS-IS LSP and advertise the hop-by-hop options they support in
   the Hellos they send.  An RBridge is not required to support any
   options.

   Unless an RBridge advertises support for a critical option, it will
   not normally receive frames with that option.

   An RBridge SHOULD NOT add a critical option to a frame unless,
   -  for a critical hop-by-hop option, it has determined that the next
      hop RBridge or RBridges to which the frame will be sent support
      that option, or
   - for a critical ingress-to-egress option, it has determined that the
      RBridge or RBridges that will egress the frame support that
      option.

   "SHOULD NOT" is specified since there may be cases where it is
   acceptable for those frames to be discarded by the egress RBridges
   that do not implement the option.



2.3 Options Format

   If any options are present in a TRILL Header, as indicated by a non-
   zero Op-Length field, the first 32 bits of the options area consist
   of two summary bits and 30 option bits as described below. The
   remainder of the options area, if any, consists of TLV (Type Length
   Value) encoded options aligned on 32-bit boundaries. Section 2.3.2
   specifies the format of an individual TLV option. Section 2.3.3
   describes the marshalling of TLV options.



2.3.1 Summary Bits and Bit Options

         |   0      1    2  3  4  5  6  7| 8 - 15|16 - 23|24 - 31|
         +------+------+--+--+--+--+--+--+-------+-------+-------+
         | CHbH | CItE |                 |       |       |       |
         +------+------+--+--+--+--+--+--+-------+-------+-------+

                  Figure 1: Options Area Initial 32 Bits

   The top two bits of the options area, bits 0 and 1 above, are called
   summary bits and summarize the presence of critical options as
   follows:

      If the CHbH (Critical Hop by Hop) bit is one, one or more critical


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      hop-by-hop options are present in the options area. Transit
      RBridges that do not support all of the critical hop-by-hop
      options present, for example an RBridge that supported no options,
      MUST drop the frame. If the CHbH bit is zero, the frame is safe,
      from the point of view of options processing, for a transit
      RBridge to forward, regardless of what options that RBridge does
      or does not support. A transit RBridge that supports none of the
      options present MUST transparently forward the options area when
      it forwards a frame, except that it MAY remove mutable hop-by-hop
      options.

      If the CItE (Critical Ingress to Egress) bit is a one, one or more
      critical ingress-to-egress options are present in the options
      area. If it is zero, no such options are present.  If either CHbH
      or CItE is non-zero, egress RBridges that don't support all
      critical options present, for example an RBridge that supports no
      options, MUST drop the frame.  If both CHbH and CItE are zero, the
      frame is safe, from the point of view of options, for any egress
      RBridge to process, regardless of what options that RBridge does
      or does not support.

   The remaining 30 bits in the initial four octets of the options area
   are available for bit-encoded options. Any RBridge adding an options
   area to a TRILL Header must set these 30 bits to zero except when
   permitted to set one or more of these bits as specified for an option
   that RBridge implements. The 30 bits are categorized as follows:

       Bits   Category
      ---------------------
       2- 7   Critical hop-by-hop bits
       8-15   Non-critical hop-by-hop bits
      16-23   Critical ingress-to-egress bits
      24-31   Non-critical ingress-to-egress bits

   All bit encoded options are considered mutable except the critical
   hop-by-hop options. Any transit RBridge MUST transparently copy bits
   16 through 31, except as permitted by an option implemented by that
   RBridge, but MAY either copy or clear any of the bits from 8 through
   15. Even if a transit RBridge removes all TLV options from a TRILL
   Header when allowed to do so, it MUST NOT eliminate the options area
   in a forwarded frame if any of the 2 through 7 or 16 through 31 bits
   remain non-zero; however, if there are no TLV options and all of bits
   2 through 31 are zero, then the summary bits will also be zero and
   the transit RBridge may eliminate the Options area in the frame,
   setting Op-Length to zero.







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2.3.2 TLV Option Format

   TRILL Header options, other than bit options described above, are TLV
   encoded, with some flag bits in the Type and Length octets, in the
   format show in Figure 2.

      | 0  1  2  3  4  5  6  7| 8|       9-15         |
      +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---
      |IE|NC|      Type       |MT|      Length        | value...
      +--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+--+---

                      Figure 2. Option TLV Structure

   The highest order bit of the first octet (IE) is zero for hop-by-hop
   options and one for ingress-to-egress options.  Hop-by-hop options
   are potentially applicable to every RBridge that receives the frame.
   Ingress-to-egress options are only inserted at the ingress RBridge
   and are applicable at egress RBridges. Ingress-to-egress options MAY
   also be examined and acted upon by transit RBridges as specified in
   the particular option.

   The second highest order bit of the first octet (NC) is zero for
   critical options and one for non-critical options.

   The highest order bit of the second octet (MT) is zero for immutable
   options and one for mutable options. The IE, NC, Type, and MT fields
   themselves MUST NOT be changed even for a mutable option.

   The bottom six bits of the first octet give the option Type code. The
   option Type may constrain the values of the IE, NC, and MT bits. For
   example, if the Type indicates a Flow ID option (see Section 4.1),
   then it MUST be marked as a hop-by-hop, non-critical, mutable option.
   If the IE, NC, or MT bits have a value not permitted by the option
   Type specification for an option that an RBridge must act on (any
   critical ingress-to-egress option at an egress RBridge and any
   critical hop-by-hop option), the RBridge MUST discard the frame. If
   these bits have a value not permitted by for the Type for an option
   that an RBridge may ignore (any ingress-to-egress option at a transit
   RBridge and any non-critical option), the RBridge MAY discard the
   frame. "MAY" is chosen in this case to minimize the checking burden.

   The Length field is an unsigned quantity giving the length of the
   option value in octets.  It gives the amount of option value data, if
   any, beyond the initial two Type and Length octets.  The Length field
   MUST NOT be such that the option value extends beyond the end of the
   total options area as specified by the TRILL Header Op-Length. Thus,
   the value of Length can vary from zero to 118. The meaning of
   "Length" values of 119 through 127 is reserved and, when such values
   are noticed in a frame, the frame MUST be discarded.



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2.3.3 Marshalling of Options

   In a TRILL Header with options, those options start immediately after
   the Ingress RBridge Nickname and completely fill the options area.

   TLV options start immediately after the initial four octets of option
   and summary bits and MUST appear in ascending order by the value of
   the nine high order bits of the Type and Length octets considered as
   an unsigned integer in network byte order. There MUST NOT be more
   than one option in a frame with any particular value of this nine
   high order bits. Thus the TLV options MUST be ordered as follows: (1)
   critical hop-by-hop options, (2) non-critical hop-by-hop options, (3)
   critical ingress-to-egress options, and (4) non-critical ingress-to-
   egress options. Frames that violate this paragraph are erroneous,
   will produce unspecified results, and MAY be discarded. "MAY" is
   chosen to minimize the format-checking burden on transit RBridges.

   Options are 32-bit aligned.  Should an option not consist of a
   multiple of four octets, the option is padded at the end up to the
   next multiple of four octets. These padding octets MUST be sent as
   zero and ignored on receipt.

   If any options are present, those options, both flag and TLV, MUST be
   correctly summarized into the CHbH and CItE bits at the top of the
   initial four octets of the options area.



2.4 Conflict of Options

   It is possible for options to conflict. Two or more options can be
   present in a frame that direct an RBridge processing the frame to do
   conflicting things or to change its interpretation of later parts of
   the frame in conflicting ways. Such conflicts are resolved by
   applying the following rules in the order given:

   1. Any frame containing options that require mutually incompatible
      changes in way later parts of the frame are interpreted or
      structured MUST be discarded. (Such options will be critical
      options, normally hop-by-hop critical options.)

   2. Critical options override non-critical options.

   2. Within each of the two categories of critical and non-critical
      options, the option appearing first in lexical order in the frame
      always overrides an option appearing later in the frame. Thus a
      conflict between a bit option and a TLV option is always resolved
      in favor of the bit option. Bit options with lower bit numbers are
      considered to have occurred before bit options with higher bit
      numbers.


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3. Specific Bit Option

   The table below shows the state of TRILL Header bit option
   assignments. See Section 6 for IANA Considerations.

        Bit    Purpose         Section
      -----------------------------------
        0-1    Summary           2.3
        2-7    available for critical hop-by-hop options
        8-9    ECN               3.1
       10-15   available for non-critical hop-by-hop options
       16-23   available for critical ingress-to-egress options
       24-31   available for non-critical ingress-to-egress options

                           Table 1. Flag Options



3.1 ECN Bit Option

   RBridges may implement an ECN (Explicit Congestion Notification)
   option [RFC3168]. If implemented, it SHOULD be enabled by default but
   can be disable on a per RBridge basis by configuration.

   RBridges that do not implement this option or on which it is disabled
   simply (1) set bits 8 and 9 of the bit options area zero when they
   add an options area to a TRILL Header and (2) transparently copy
   those bits, if an options area is present, when they forward a frame
   with a TRILL Header.

   An RBridge that implements the ECN option does the following when
   that option is enabled:

   o  When ingressing an IP frame that is ECN enabled, it MUST add an
      options area to the TRILL Header and copy the two ECN bits from
      the IP header into option bits 8 and 9.
   o  When ingressing a frame for a non-IP protocol with a means of
      indicating ECN that is understood by the RBridge, it MAY add an
      options area to the TRILL Header with the ECN bits set from the
      ingressed frame.
   o  When forwarding a frame encountering congestion at an RBridge, if
      an options area is present with option bits 8 and 9 indicating
      ECN-capable transport, the RBridge MUST modify them to the
      congestion experienced value.
   o  When egressing an IP frame, if the TRILL Header has an options
      area with option bits 8 and 9 non-zero, it copies those bits into
      the ECN bits in the IP header.
   o  When egressing a non-IP protocol frame with a means of indicating
      ECN that is understood by the RBridge, it MAY transfer the ECN
      information from the ECN bits in the options area to the egressed


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      native frame.

   The following table is modified from [RFC3168] and shows the meaning
   of bit values in TRILL Header option bits 8 and 9, bits 6 and 7 in
   the IPv4 TOS Byte, and bits 6 and 7 in the IPv6 Traffic Class Octet:

      Binary  Meaning
      ------  -------
        00     Not-ECT (Not ECN-Capable Transport)
        01     ECT(1) (ECN-Capable Transport(1))
        10     ECT(0) (ECN-Capable Transport(0))
        11     CE (Congestion Experienced)

                       Table 2. ECN Bit Combinations


   An RBridge detects congestion either by monitoring its own queue
   depths or from participation in a link-specific protocol. An RBridge
   implementing the ECN option MAY be configured to add congestion
   experienced marking using ECN to any frame with a TRILL Header that
   encounters congestion even if the frame was not previously marked as
   ECN-capable or did not have an options area.






























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4. Specific TLV Options

   The table below shows the state of TRILL Header TLV option Type
   assignment. See Section 6 for IANA Considerations.

          Type        Purpose           Section
         ---------------------------------------
          0x00       reserved
          0x01       Flow ID             4.1
          0x02-0x1F  available
          0x20       Test/Pad            4.2
          0x21-0x3E  available
          0x3F       reserved

                         Table 3. TLV Option Types


   The following subsections specify particular TRILL TLV options.



4.1 Flow ID TLV Option

   In connection with multi-pathing of frames, frames that are part of
   the same order dependent flow need to follow the same path for
   correct operation.  Methods to determine flows are beyond the scope
   of the this document; however, it may be useful, once the flow of a
   frame has been determined, to preserve and transmit that information
   for use by subsequent RBridges.

   This is a non-critical option. It is considered hop-by-hop because it
   can be added or changed by a transit RBridge and transit RBridges may
   wish to use it to make forwarding decisions. Because the ingress
   RBridge may know the most about a frame, it is expected that this
   option would most commonly be added at the ingress RBridge. Once in a
   frame, the option SHOULD NOT be removed or changed unless, for
   example, a campus is divided into regions such that different Flow
   IDs would make sense in different regions.

   The value length of this option is fixed at 2 for efficiency. In a
   TRILL data frame with only this option, the size of the option plus
   the size of the initial 4 summary and flag option octets is such as
   to maintain 64-bit alignment of the encapsulated frame.

   The option fields and flags are as follows:

      o  Type is 0x01.
      o  Length is 2. The data is an unsigned integer that is the Flow
         ID.
      o  IE MUST be zero. This is a hop-by-hop option.


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      o  NC and MT MUST be one. This is a non-critical mutable option.



4.2 Test/Pad Option

   This option is intended for testing and padding.

   A specific meaning for this option with the critical flag set will
   not be defined so, in that form, it MUST always be treated as an
   unknown critical option. If the critical flag is not set, the option
   does nothing. In either case, it may be any length that will fit.
   Thus, for example, in the non-critical form, it can be used to cause
   the encapsulated frame staring right after the options area to be
   64-bit aligned or for testing purposes.

      o  Type is 0x20.
      o  Length is variable. The value is ignored.
      o  IE may be zero or one.  This option has both hop-by-hop and
         ingress-to-egress versions.
      o  NC is zero for the pad option and one for the test option.
         +  The non-critical version of this option does nothing.
         +  The critical version of this option MUST always be treated
            as an unknown critical option.
      o  MT may be zero or one except that it must be zero if the other
         flags indicate the options is a critical hop-by-hop option.
         This option may be flagged as mutable or immutable.

























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5. Additions to IS-IS

   RBridges use IS-IS PDUs to inform other RBridges which options they
   support. The specific IS-IS TLVs or sub-TLVs used to encode and
   advertise this information are specified in a separate document.
   Support for critical options MUST be advertised. Support for non-
   critical options MAY be advertised unless the specification of a
   particular non-critical option imposes a requirement higher than
   "MAY" for the advertising of that option by RBridges that implement
   it.

   Rbridges indicate in their link state which ingress-to-egress TLV and
   bit options they support.

   Rbridges indicate in their Hellos which hop-by-hop TLV and bit
   options they support.




































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6. IANA Considerations

   IANA will create two subregistries within the TRILL registry. A
   "TRILL Header Bit Options" subregistry that is initially populated as
   specified in Table 1 in Section 3.  And a "TRILL TLV Option Types"
   subregistry that is initially populated as specified in Table 3 in
   Section 4. References in both of those tables to sections of this
   document are to be replaced in the IANA subregistries by references
   to this document as an RFC.

   New TRILL bit options and TLV option types are allocated by IETF
   Review [RFC5226].




7. Security Considerations

   For general TRILL protocol security considerations, see [RFCtrill].

   In order to facilitate authentication, options SHOULD be specified so
   they do not have alternative equivalent forms. Authentication of
   anything with alternative equivalent forms almost always requires
   canonicalization that an authenticating RBridge ignorant of the
   option would be unable to do and that may be complex and error prone
   even for an RBridge knowledgeable of the option. It is best for any
   option to have a unique encoding.

























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8. References

   Normative and informative references for this document are given
   below.



8.1 Normative References

   [RFC2119] - Bradner, S., "Key words for use in RFCs to Indicate
      Requirement Levels", BCP 14, RFC 2119, March 1997.

   [RFC3168] -  Ramakrishnan, K., Floyd, S., and D. Black, "The Addition
      of Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to IP", RFC 3168,
      September 2001.

   [RFC5226] Narten, T. and H. Alvestrand, "Guidelines for Writing an
      IANA Considerations Section in RFCs", BCP 26, RFC 5226, May 2008.

   [RFCtrill] - Perlman, R., D. Eastlake, D. Dutt, S. Gai, and A.
      Ghanwani, "RBridges: Base Protocol Specification", draft-ietf-
      trill-rbridge-protocol-16.txt, in RFC Editor's queue.



8.2 Informative References

   None.
























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Change History

   The sections below summarize changes between successive versions of
   this draft. RFC Editor: Please delete this section before
   publication.



Version 00 to 02

   Change the requirement for TLV option ordering to be strictly ordered
   by the value of the top nine bits of their first two bytes so that
   the MT bit is included.

   Specify meaning of mutability bit for hop-by-hop options.

   Fix length of Flow ID Value at 2.

   Require that options that may significantly affect the interpretation
   or format of subsequent parts of the frame be critical options.



Version 02 to 03

   Move Test/Pad option into this document from the More Options draft
   and move the More Flags option from this document into the More
   Options draft.

   Prohibit multiple occurrences of an option in a frame.






















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Authors' Addresses

   Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
   Stellar Switches
   155 Beaver Street
   Milford, MA 01757

   Phone: +1-508-333-2270
   email: d3e3e3@gmail.com


   Anoop Ghanwani
   Brocade Communications Systems
   1745 Technology Drive
   San Jose, CA 95110 USA

   Phone: +1-408-333-7149
   Email: anoop@brocade.com


   Caitlin Bestler
   Quantum
   1650 Technology Drive , Suite 700
   San Jose, CA 95110

   Phone: +1-408-944-4000
   email: cait@asomi.com


   Vishwas Manral
   IP Infusion Inc.
   1188 E. Arques Ave.
   Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA

   Tel:   +1-408-400-1900
   email: vishwas@ipinfusion.com
















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