Bridge WG Status Report

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Bridge WG Status Report

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• David Harrington
• Dan Romascanu

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Agenda

• 5 min - Administrivia
• Blue sheets
• Minutes
• 5 min - Agenda bashing
• 20 min - WG Status Report
• 20 min - Transition mibs to IEEE 802.1 WG
• 5 min - Administrivia

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Status Summary

• Personnel Issues
• WG documents
• Standards advancement
• Transition mibs to IEEE 802.1 WG

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Progress on Personnel Issues

• WG Chair (Les Bell) unable to continue
• New co-chairs
• Dave Harrington
• Dan Romascanu
• Editors (Les, KC, Vivian) unable to continue
• New editors to finalize documents
• Dave Levi (Extensions, RSTP-MIB)
• Juergen Schoenwalder (SMIv2)
• WG lack of participation
• Corrected mailing list and archive links in
  charter
• Transitioning mib module responsibility to IEEE
  802.1 WG

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Progress on Documents

• Three years behind charter schedule
• RFC1493 in SMIv2 due July 2001
• Extensions (t,u,v) due August 2001
• RSTP-MIB (1w) due August 2001
• 802.1x MIB (unscheduled)
• Updates needed for NITS and MIB Doctor comments
• Request Tracking system (RT) used by chairs to
  track problems
• Being used widely by WG chairs and MIB Doctors
• Updated boilerplates, references, etc.
• Updated technical concerns
• Merged VLAN ID TCs into Extensions document
• New work not being accepted
• No new work until existing work completed

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Progress on Documents

• Documents have been finalized
• All three republished for IETF61
• 802.1x document dropped
• WG Last call starting on all three documents
• Proposed Standard status before IETF62
• NEED REVIEWS

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Progress on Standards Advancement

• Behind charter schedule
• RFC1493bis to Full Standard Sep01
• RFC2674bis to Draft Standard Sep01
• Need advancement discussion on mailing list
• Need Reports
• 2674,bis implementation
• 1493,bis deployment

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Progress on Transition Strategy

• Other presentation discusses motivations and
  progress
• Progressing as anticipated
• No new work being accepted by Bridge WG
• Submissions should go to IEEE 802.1 WG
• Plan to close Bridge WG

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Goals for Next Review

• No planned session for IETF62 or IETF63
• Status reports for advancement and IEEE
  transition will be done on the mailing list
• By IETF62, status of documents should be
  finalized
• By IETF63, reports for advancement should be
  finalized
• By IETF64, IEEE will operate without IETF support

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Action Items

• WG Last Call for three documents
• Submit for advancement to PS