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Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Appointed Forwarders
RFC 8139

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2026-05-20
(System) Changed metadata: changed keywords to '['DRB', 'VLAN mapping', 'inhibition', 'port shutdown', 'trill', 'TRansparent Interconnection of Lots of Links']' from '[]'
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "F. Hu": changed name from "fangwei hu" to "F. Hu", cleared country (was "China"), changed order from "4" to "5"
2026-05-20
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Changed author "A. Banerjee": changed name from "Ayan Banerjee" to "A. Banerjee", cleared country (was "San Jose, CA 95134 USA"), changed order from "3" to …
Changed author "A. Banerjee": changed name from "Ayan Banerjee" to "A. Banerjee", cleared country (was "San Jose, CA 95134 USA"), changed order from "3" to "4"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "M. Umair": changed name from "Mohammed Umair" to "M. Umair", changed affiliation from "IPinfusion" to "IP Infusion", changed order from "2" to "3"
2026-05-20
(System) Changed author "Y. Li": changed name from "Yizhou Li" to "Y. Li", cleared country (was "Nanjing 210012, China"), changed order from "1" to "2"
2026-05-20
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Changed author "D. Eastlake 3rd": changed name from "Donald Eastlake" to "D. Eastlake 3rd", cleared country (was "Milford, MA 01757 USA"), changed order from "0" …
Changed author "D. Eastlake 3rd": changed name from "Donald Eastlake" to "D. Eastlake 3rd", cleared country (was "Milford, MA 01757 USA"), changed order from "0" to "1"
2026-05-20
(System) Metadata update from RFC Editor
2022-12-08
Cindy Morgan Notification list changed to shares@ndzh.com from "Susan Hares" <shares@ndzh.com.>
2017-06-08
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Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8139, changed title to 'Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Appointed Forwarders', changed abstract …
Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 8139, changed title to 'Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): Appointed Forwarders', changed abstract to 'TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) supports multi-access LAN (Local Area Network) links where a single link can have multiple end stations and TRILL switches attached.  Where multiple TRILL switches are attached to a link, native traffic to and from end stations on that link is handled by a subset of those TRILL switches called "Appointed Forwarders" as originally specified in RFC 6325, with the intent that native traffic in each VLAN be handled by at most one TRILL switch.  This document clarifies and updates the Appointed Forwarder mechanism.  It updates RFCs 6325 and 7177 and obsoletes RFC 6439.', changed pages to 41, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2017-06-08, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created obsoletes relation between draft-ietf-trill-rfc6439bis and RFC 6439, created updates relation between draft-ietf-trill-rfc6439bis and RFC 6325, created updates relation between draft-ietf-trill-rfc6439bis and RFC 7177)
2017-06-08
(System) RFC published