Subject: [PWE3] Revised fc-encap draft (FC pseudowire)

From: <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 19:26:22 -0400

The -11 version that was posted should be close to ready for WG Last Call.  Here's a summary of what's changed since -10:

	- Moved former authors (MIA) to contributors, adjusted boilerplate
	- Rebased FC document reference to FC-BB-6
		o Added mention of ASFC flow control functionality
		o Linked PSN outage to FC-BB-6 "WAN down" event (PSN outage SHOULD
			cause FC-BB-6 "WAN down" event, which takes the FC link offline)
	- Allow FC primitive signals across the PW, use a better example
	- Latency measurement requirement is now SHOULD, instead of MAY
		o Latency measurement: FC PW-specific PING & PING ACK control frames
		o Draft now lists all uses of FC PW control frames (see FC-BB-6
			for detailed specification of each FC PW control frame)

The associated changes to the T11 FC portion of the FC pseudowire are in T11 (Fibre Channel standards body) document 10-252v1 - there's a v2 coming, but no major technical changes are expected.  The discussion of that document at the June T11 FC-BB-6 meeting was positive; the current plan is to ask T11 for approval of those changes August (T11 meets the week after the Maastricht meetings).

The T11 document (T11/10-252v1) is publicly available from T11's web site (www.t11.org), and I can send a copy to anyone who'd prefer to receive it directly in email.

Thanks,
--David (for David and Linda, fc-encap draft editors)
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