RE: Layer 2 Switching Caps LSPs

[Dimitri.Papadimitriou@alcatel.be]

ben,

> Regarding your statement ?you have to decouple the notion of ethernet
with
> bridging?

-> i did mention this to clearly distinguish
   1. Ethernet 802.3
   2. Bridging
   3. MAC learning

   to lead to the example where the Ethernet term is mentioned (take for
inst.
   the ethernet port mode of some of this WG RFCs), this by referencing
only
   1) but not 2) and 3)

> Forwarding of Ethernet frames IS bridging (as defined by the IEEE) and a
lot > of work has gone into defining the forwarding behavior of bridges.
Are you > proposing to define a new form of Ethernet forwarding outside of
the IEEE?  > This seems like a bad idea.

-> for the ethernet port mode (nothing new here, the whole flow entering
the
   incoming port is inserted into the outgoing port) for the other mode, it
   additionally allows for distinguishing the flows (entering a port) based
   on the VLAN ID (in the point-to-point context that we are discussing
here)