I would like to request that GROW consider adopting the following Internet
Draft.
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mlevy-ixp-jumboframes-00.txt
This draft addresses the ability for Internet Exchange Points (IXPs) to provide
connectivity between peering partners (or IXP customers) via a
larger-than-1,500 Byte MTU path. There are various technical and operational
issues involved in providing a large MTU path to IXP customers. These issues
are addressed in the draft. The draft has been reviewed by various operators
of Internet Exchanges and also parties with real-world large MTU experience.
The draft is not meant to be a panacea for end-to-end large MTU communications
- that's outside of the scope of the draft. It addresses IXPs and their
customers because that's a common point for many networks to interconnect. At
an IX all peers need to have a consistent configuration in order for there not
to be an operational issue.
In reading ...
> The purpose of the GROW is to consider the operational problems associated
> with the IPv4 and IPv6 global routing systems, ...
... It seems that the GROW area of IETF is the appropriate forum for this
draft. Peering and peering points are central to the operation of the global
Internet. Their well-being is important to the community and while some IX's
have successfully operated for years with a large MTU service (NETNOD in Sweden
for example), it's never been documented. Now is the time to do this and
hopefully other IXs around the globe will start to offer large MTU services
because of this.
Please read over this draft and consider adopting this draft into GROW.
Thanks in advance,
Martin
Martin J. Levy
Director IPv6 Strategy
Hurricane Electric
760 Mission Court,
Fremont, CA 94539, USA
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: I-D Action: draft-mlevy-ixp-jumboframes-00.txt
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2011 20:02:26 -0800
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A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
Title : Jumbo Frame Deployment at Internet Exchange Points
(IXPs)
Author(s) : Martin J. Levy
Filename : draft-mlevy-ixp-jumboframes-00.txt
Pages : 22
Date : 2011-11-14
This document provides guidelines on how to deploy Jumbo Frame
support on Internet Exchange Points (IXP). Jumbo Frame support
allows packets larger than 1,500 Bytes to be passed between IXP
customers over the IXPs layer 2 fabric. This document describes
methods to enable Jumbo Frame support and keep in place existing
1,500 Byte communications.
This document strongly recommends that IXP operators choose 9,000
Bytes for their Jumbo Frame implementation.
A URL for this Internet-Draft is:
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mlevy-ixp-jumboframes-00.txt
Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/
This Internet-Draft can be retrieved at:
ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-mlevy-ixp-jumboframes-00.txt
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