1. ASSIGNED PROJECT NUMBER: 802.1ai

2. SPONSOR DATE OF REQUEST: 2004-01-01

3. TYPE OF DOCUMENT: Standard

4. TITLE OF DOCUMENT: Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks – Virtual Bridged Local Area Networks - Amendment 07: Multiple Registration Protocol

5. LIFE CYCLE: Full-Use

6. TYPE OF PROJECT: Amendment P802.1Q

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7. WORKING GROUP INFORMATION

Name of Working Group: IEEE 802.1 Working Group
Approximate Number of Expected Working Group Members: 50

8. CONTACT INFO FOR WORKING GROUP CHAIR

Name of Working Group Chair: Tony Jeffree
Telephone: +44-161-973-4278
FAX: +44-161-973-6534
E-mail: tony@jeffree.co.uk

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10. CONTACT INFO OF SPONSOR

Sponsor: C/LM
Name of Sponsor Chair: Paul Nikolich
Telephone: 857-205-0050
FAX: 781-334-2255
E-mail: p.nikolich@ieee.org

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11. TYPE OF SPONSOR BALLOT: Individual

Expected Date of Submission for Initial Sponsor Ballot: 2006-12-31

12. PROJECTED COMPLETION DATE FOR SUBMITTAL TO REVCOM: 2007-09-31

13. SCOPE: This standard specifies protocols, procedures, and managed objects to support the Multiple Attribute Registration Protocol. MRP allows participants in a MRP Application to register attributes with other participants in a Bridged Local Area Network. Two Applications are defined, to register VLANs (MVRP) and Group MAC addresses (MMRP). MVRP will furthermore provide for the rapid healing of network failures without interrupting services to unaffected VLANs.

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This standard is designed to support Provider Bridges (IEEE P802.1ad).

14. PURPOSE: The use of bridges by Ethernet Service Providers has greatly increased the number of VLANs and Group MAC Addresses in the Providers’ Virtual Bridged networks. The time and bandwidth required by the existing GVRP and GMRP protocols to register this information has become a dominant factor in the fault recovery time of a Provider Bridged Network. In a large network, localized topology changes can affect the service over a much larger portion of the network. MRP will greatly improve both situations.

14a. Reason: Public networks represent a new and very broad application space for IEEE 802 technologies and specifically for Provider Bridges (P802.1ad). Operators of such networks require rapid convergence of optimized VLAN and Group MAC Address paths through their networks following a change of network topology. Hundreds of vendors and potential users (the Service Providers) of P802.1ad Provider Bridges have expressed the need both to improve the VLAN and MAC topology convergence time, to reduce the amount of processing required to serve the existing GVRP and GMRP protocols, and to reduce the disruption of traffic in a very large network by a topology change in a small portion of that network.

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