>Now that you mention it, datacenter or campus LANs would appear to be the >biggest wins in terms of power and raw numbers of interfaces. >IEEE seems like a better match in that case. No idea if there are things going >on in that venue.
As for "datacenter or campus LANs", I'd mention that ISIS can be used as the control protocol (e.g., TRILL and SPB). This is an area that matches IETF. Mingui >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of >Tony Tauber >Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 9:15 AM >To: Shane Amante >Cc: [email protected] >Subject: Re: I-D Action: draft-retana-rtgwg-eacp-01.txt > >On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 12:05 PM, Shane Amante <[email protected]> >wrote: > > > > Thus, the only practical application I can see of power savings would > be on >copper interfaces at the deepest "edge" of the network, (U-PE to CE), but >there's no active routing protocols on those interfaces. And, although there's >Layer-2 control protocols, e.g.: LLDP and the MEF's "Ethernet LMI", but I've >not >seen either of those achieve widespread deployment mostly because the CE >devices do not support it, (yet). But, we're the IETF, not the IEEE nor the >MEF ... so, I'm not clear what the IETF would be able to work on here. > > >Now that you mention it, datacenter or campus LANs would appear to be the >biggest wins in terms of power and raw numbers of interfaces. >IEEE seems like a better match in that case. No idea if there are things going >on in that venue. > >Tony _______________________________________________ rtgwg mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/rtgwg
