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[Genadi Velev <velev@panasonic.de>]

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Hi all,

A new draft was published today (please see below).

Any feedback and comments are welcome, especially from those of you who are
dealing with packet transport over wide area Ethernet networks.

thanks,
Genadi

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> Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-kawakami-mpls-lsp-vlan-00.txt
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>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line
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>
> 	Title		: Method to Setup LSP using VLAN Tag Switching
> 	Author(s)	: T. Kawakami et al.
> 	Filename	: draft-kawakami-mpls-lsp-vlan-00.txt
> 	Pages		: 15
> 	Date		: 2003-2-26
>
> This document describes a method to setup a Layer 2 tunnel over
> networks based on Ethernet technology. For this purpose, the ports of
> an Ethernet switch are configured to forward VLAN tag-labeled packets
> incoming from a certain port to another unambiguous port by using
> VLAN tag information. The Ethernet switches themselves are a part of
> the Label Switching Routers (LSRs), which distribute the VLAN tags
> using Label Distribution Protocol (LDP). To enable LDP to fulfil this
> function, an LDP extension is proposed. The introduced method
> simplifies the transport of Ethernet frames over wide area Ethernet
> networks.
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