Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): RBridge Channel Header Extension
RFC 7978

Received changes through RFC Editor sync (created alias RFC 7978, changed title to 'Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links (TRILL): RBridge Channel Header Extension', changed abstract to 'The IETF TRILL (Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links) protocol includes an optional mechanism (specified in RFC 7178) called RBridge Channel for the transmission of typed messages between TRILL switches in the same campus and the transmission of such messages between TRILL switches and end stations on the same link.  This document specifies extensions to the RBridge Channel protocol header to support two features as follows: (1) a standard method to tunnel payloads whose type can be indicated by Ethertype through encapsulation in RBridge Channel messages; and (2) a method to support security facilities for RBridge Channel messages.  This document updates RFC 7178.', changed pages to 25, changed standardization level to Proposed Standard, changed state to RFC, added RFC published event at 2016-09-30, changed IESG state to RFC Published, created updates relation between draft-ietf-trill-channel-tunnel and RFC 7178)