Subject: RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-mcast-reqts-02.txt

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 16:08:37 +0100

Colleagues,

Please find attached my review of draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-mcast-reqs-02.

It is mostly editorial corrections/changes but there are some more
general comments too and I have highlighted a number of sections of text
that I do not understand.

Thanks
Ben

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[email-masked] <mailto:[email-masked]> wrote:
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line
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> This draft is a work item of the Layer 2 Virtual Private
> Networks Working Group of the IETF.
> 
> 	Title		: Requirements for Multicast Support in
> Virtual Private LAN Services
> 	Author(s)	: Y. Kamite, et al.
> 	Filename	: draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-mcast-reqts-02.txt
Pages		: 28
> 	Date		: 2006-6-26
> 
> This document provides functional requirements for network solutions
>    that support multicast over Virtual Private LAN Service (VPLS).  It
>    specifies requirements both from the end user and service provider
>    standpoints.  It is intended that potential solutions will
> use these
>    requirements as guidelines.
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> t-reqts-02.txt 
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