Informational RFC to be: draft-ogura-mapos-nsp-multiexp-02.txt

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IESG,

This RFC-to-be was submitted to the RFC Editor to be published as
Informational: draft-ogura-mapos-nsp-multiexp-02.txt.


Four week timeout is initiated (6 October 2003).


       A Multicast Extension to MAPOS NSP (Node Switch Protocol)

   Multiple Access Protocol over SONET/SDH (MAPOS) is a link-layer
   protocol for transmitting network-layer datagrams encapsulated in
   High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) frames over Synchronous Optical
   NETwork/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH).

   This document describes an extension to the Node Switch Protocol
   (NSP) of MAPOS. NSP is a protocol for automatically assigning
   addresses to MAPOS network interfaces of nodes. The extension NSP+
   enables the nodes to provide their directly connected switches with
   information about the multicast groups to which the MAPOS network
   interfaces of the nodes belong, so a switch forwards only required
   multicast frames to the network interfaces.


Sincerely,

Sandy Ginoza - USC/ISI
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