Tag Switching BOF (tagsw)
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 Charter
 Last Modified: 04/07/1998

 Current Status: Concluded Working Group

 Chair(s):
     Bruce Davie  <bsd@cisco.com>

 Routing Area Director(s):
     Bill Fenner  <fenner@research.att.com>
     Alex Zinin  <zinin@psg.com>

 Routing Area Advisor:
        <0>

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Description of Working Group:

Tag switching BOF

Numerous proposals have been made for mechanisms to efficiently
support IP routing (or other network layer protocols) using layer 2
forwarding technologies based on label swapping. If products using
such techniques are to interoperate, then some aspects of the
mechanism need to be standardized. These include: 

 - the protocol which is used to bind forwarding labels to IP (or
other network layer) forwarding information;

 - the encapsulations for carrying IP packets over various layer 2
links.

The goal of this BOF is to establish whether there is interest in the
IETF community in such a standardisation effort. If there is, the goal
would be to produce a working group charter for standardisation of the
binding protocol and encapsulations.

Relevant Internet Drafts include:

draft-rfced-info-rekhter-00.txt
draft-doolan-tdp-spec-00.txt

 Goals and Milestones:


 Internet-Drafts:

  No Current Internet-Drafts.

 Request For Comments:

  None to date.