Re: [RAM] Request to advance RFC4214 to Proposed Standard

[Brian E Carpenter <brc@zurich.ibm.com>]

Actually the VE work was directly triggered by the 6over4 draft;
it was a student of Lixia Zhang, and the 6over4 authors encouraged
him!

    Brian

On 2007-03-28 16:17, Templin, Fred L wrote:
> > > but please note that this work (as well as ISATAP itself) derived
> > > from an earlier work titled: "Virtual Ethernet".
> > If that means 6over4 a.k.a. RFC 2529,
>
> Yes, I am meaning to include RFC2529 but also the Virtual Ethernet
> project that came from a research lab which (I think) pre-dated
> 6over4. Both RFC2529 and the research work are cited in RFC4214. 
>
> > I'll observe that that work went to PS eight years ago,
>
> Good case in point.
>
> > but has not made it into the real world
> > despite a couple of successful implementations at the time - largely
> > because it depends on deployment of IPv4 multicast. iirc, the original
> > motivation for ISATAP was to provide an NBMA replacement for that
> > multicast requirement.
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is that still an accurate characterization?
>
> For the most part, yes; but we are also beginning to see
> native multicasting capabilities emerging for MANETs so I
> do not mean to preclude the possibility of benefitting
> from such.
>
> Fred
> fred.l.templin@boeing.com  
>  
> >      Brian
> >
> > (Fred & Kurtis - pls excuse this discussion continuing. While 
> > the question
> > may be out of charter, I think the parties with interest and 
> > experience
> > are all here.)