Tag Switching BOF (tagsw) ------------------------- Charter Last Modified: 04/07/1998 Current Status: Concluded Working Group Chair(s): Bruce Davie Routing Area Director(s): Bill Fenner Alex Zinin Routing Area Advisor: <0> Mailing Lists: General Discussion: To Subscribe: Archive: 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.