Subject: Suggestion for a minor modification in draft-ietf-pwe3-control-protocol-06.txt

From: Sumit <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2004 16:06:11 +0530

Hello All,

I want to suggest rephrasing two sentences in draft-ietf-pwe3-control-protocol-06.txt:

Section 4.3. Ethernet VLAN:

"The Ethernet frame will be encapsulated according to the procedures in [11] tagged mode...... " 

The above sentence seems to indicate that the encapsulation procedure can only be "tagged mode" while emulating Ethernet VLAN, which is not true, as even the "raw mode" can be used. The above sentence should be rephrased to the following to remove the possibility of confusion. 

"The Ethernet frame will be encapsulated according to the procedures in [11], either in "tagged mode" or in the "raw mode""

Similarly, 
Section 4.4. Ethernet:

"The Ethernet frame will be encapsulated according to the procedures in [11] "ethernet raw mode"..... "

The above sentence can be rephrased to the following:

"The Ethernet frame will be encapsulated according to the procedures in [11]"

The above two sections should not require the use of tagged or raw mode for one or another Ethernet service being emulated. This might hamper clear understanding of the encapsulation procedures.

Please correct me if I am wrong. 

Regards
Sumit