Re: Welcome to stds-802-3-etholaps
Rich, et al,
LAPS is "Link Access Protocol over SDH". It is a variant of HDLC. It was
created and standardized in the ITU by the Peoples Republic of China
(PRC). Ethernet over LAPS was a MAC/PHY created by the PRC specifically
for data switches so that they could use "Ethernet" ubiquitously over their
SDH based optical network. This was first presented to 802.3 at Montreal
in July of '99 as a liaison from ISO/ITU. An ad hoc was formed to make a
response. But because very few 802.3 people were paying attention, the
work of the ad hoc did not receive favorable support, and the response was
tabled. There has been additional work that has been done on the proposed
standard and a new liaison response has been requested from 802.3 by the
ITU before December 2000. This information should be in the minutes of
the various 802.3 Plenary meetings since July '99.
I attended the ITU meeting concerning this in March '00. If you want to
participate, I will be glad to share the various documents that I have from
the ITU concerning this proposed standard.
Thank you,
Roy Bynum
At 11:09 PM 9/30/00 -0700, Rich Taborek wrote:
>Roy,
>
>What the heck is LAPS? ...and where in 802.3 is this activity taking
>place? I don't see this reflector in the offical 802.3 reflectors list
>(http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/802/3/reflectors.html)
>
>Best Regards,
>Rich
>
>--
>
>Roy Bynum wrote:
> >
> > For those of the 802.3ae Task Force that want to participate in the liaison
> > with the ITU about the Ethernet over LAPS, the reflector has now been set
> > up. It is stds-802-3-etholaps@ieee.org. I am not sure if all of the
> > members of stds-802-3-hssg were registered on this reflector. If you did
> > not receive the message below To particpate, send a message to
> > majordomo@ieee.org, requesting to be added to the reflector.
> >
> > Thank you,
> > Roy Bynum
> >
> > >Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2000 09:12:06 -0400 (EDT)
> > >To: rabynum@mindspring.com
> > >From: majordomo@ieee.org
> > >Subject: Welcome to stds-802-3-etholaps
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