I have no objection to this work being adopted by the OPS area working group.  
I do think that it is important for CAPWAP to be updated/extended for IEEE 
802.1n, and I think that these drafts are a good starting point.  Both drafts 
will need some work before they are ready for publication, though.

For example, both of these drafts have empty IANA Considerations sections, and 
that isn't right in either case.    I'm the IANA Expert Reviewer for CAPWAP 
allocations, so I'd like to make sure we properly understand what allocations 
are being requested by these documents.  I have discussed the IANA items below 
that I think will need to be allocated by these documents.  Am I missing 
anything?

On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Melinda Shore <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-shao-opsawg-capwap-hybridmac-00.txt

This document needs to allocate another WTP Mac Type for the Hybrid MAC, but 
the document doesn't seem to mention the WTP MAC Type at all.  It don't see how 
the Hybrid MAC Type can be used without assigning a WTP Mac Type value.  The 
registry for this value is described in section 15.26 of the base CAPWAP spec.

> http://www.ietf.org/id/draft-chen-opsawg-capwap-extension-00.txt

This document requests the allocation of several new Element IDs.  I think that 
these would be allocated from the CAPWAP Message Element Type registry, as 
defined in section 15.7 of the CAPAP base spec (RFC 5415).  There are a couple 
of types that include values in the spec (133 and 134, specifically).  Those 
values have not been allocated (to my knowledge) and should be removed from the 
specification until they have been requested and allocated by IANA.

I'd be happy to work with the authors to properly document these allocations, 
so that they can request the allocations from IANA.  I think that can happen 
after these drafts are adopted by the WG, though.

Margaret





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