> On Apr 6, 2015:11:17 AM, at 11:17 AM, Juergen Schoenwaelder
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 06, 2015 at 09:11:39AM -0400, Susan Hares wrote:
>> This begins a 2 week adoption call for
>> draft-dong-i2rs-l2-network-topology-01.
>>
>> Please indicate in your comments "support" or "no support" and discuss how
>> this draft will allow I2RS client-agent pairs to query information about L2
>> topology. The draft can be found at:
>>
>> http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-dong-i2rs-l2-network-topology/
>>
>> <http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-clemm-i2rs-yang-l3-topo/>
>
> I wonder how this will interwork with any possible IEEE work. Bridges
> and VLANs had been modeled as MIBs back in a day but we meanwhile
> transferred work all over to IEEE. I think there should be some IEEE
> liaison interaction here.
There has been indication at least, that the IEEE was going to
embark on this work to reflect the L2/bridge MIB work that went on there.
But as you say, there has been no official liaison to the IETF on this.
Perhaps Dan (CC:ed) knows?
--Tom
> I also wonder to what extend this data model is repeating things that
> are already in the interfaces abstraction we have. There is no mention
> of RFC 7223 yet there is overlap.
>
> There are many other things I do not understand. Why is a chassis-id a
> mac-address (and how relates this notion of a chassis to the physical
> entity modeling work). How is this going to be implemented? Is the
> idea that the information is extracted out of a briding process or do
> protocols such as layer two discovery protocols like LLDP play a role
> here? In short, I think this model needs some decent IEEE layer two
> expertise - so does this really fall into the scope of I2RS?
>
> /js
>
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