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Re: [RE] Stream identification at the MAC SAP



So, there was a bunch of work on trying to make isochronous LANs in the IEEE, and now all of that work is in hibernation and not in use. 
 
Maybe that says something.
 
- Matt
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From: owner-stds-802-3-re@IEEE.ORG [mailto:owner-stds-802-3-re@IEEE.ORG]On Behalf Of Richard Brand
Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 2:23 PM
To: STDS-802-3-RE@listserv.ieee.org
Subject: Re: [RE] Stream identification at the MAC SAP

Jose:
802.9 is a good example for Bill's question.  I was a member of the 802.9 WG when the group completed the work on 802.9a (ISLAN16-T) and .9b which I forget the formal name, but defined the Access Unit AU which was the I/F to other network types.  This WG by the way is also in hibernation.  802.9a defined an interface between .9a TE's and servers to a .9b AU and we did take exception to providing compliance with 802.1 in our .9b AU PAR for the isochronous and multiservice modes of operation.  The third mode was the 10BASE-T mode which of course complied with .1.  The modes that incorporated isochronous traffic claimed compatibility to ITU-T defined ISDN transport and used the Q.93x family of signalling protocols.

As you state, the .9 group has been disbanded for many years and there has been no effort to to revise these documents.
Regards,
Richard Brand
 
 
 

JMB wrote:

Have you revised the documents of the IEEE 802.9 ISOCHRONOUS LANs? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

This Working Group, now disbanded, developed standards for Isochronous LANs, called "Iso-Ethernet", which combines the properties of IEE 802 LAN and ISDN networks (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy). I believe that they can have interesting information, since they developed an isochronous system of local network.

With respect to the second question, the protocol able to identify data streams is the LLC type 2 (802.3), by means of the P/F bit.Jose Morales Barrosojmb@ieee.org

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Sent: Thursday, November 11, 2004 12:33 AM
Subject: [RE] Stream identification at the MAC SAP
I have a general question on the MAC-SAP interface for RE.  All 802 standards are required to support the 802.2 interface.  The 802.2 interface does not provide a way of identifying an isochronous stream to the MAC at the MAC SAP.  When 802.2 was up for reconfirmation last year I suggested that they add a stream identification parameter that could be used for protocols that provide isochronous services like 802.15.3 or now 802.3 RE.  802.2 rejected the comment. 
Has anyone given a thought to how streams would be identified at the MAC-SAP?  Would there be optional parameters added beyond those provided by the 802.2 interface?  The current parameters from 802.3 are listed here:

MA-UNITDATA request (

source_address,

destination_address,

routing_information,

data,

priority,

service_class

)

and from 802.3:

MA_DATA.request (

destination_address,

source_address,

m_sdu,

service_class

)

Thanks.
Bill