Re: more on ppp clarification ... [16NG] Re: multicast and IPv6 over ETHCS

[Alexandru Petrescu <alexandru.petrescu at motorola.com>]

Alexandru Petrescu wrote:
> > If I am following your statement, PPP would not be in the scope of
> >  the IETF.
>
> Right, that was solved by saying PPP is not link-layer but layer 2/3.
>  It doesn't build headers.  More recently one sees PANA (full UDP) 
> and EAP (independent of link-layer) and ppp doesn't get much upgrade
>  at  IETF.

Also, ppp-over-ethernet is informational.  But L2TP is what goes on
Standards Track, and L2TP+somePPPoE is informational while LCP+L2TP is
std track.

The second reason for mentioning this is that someone may think
something else than GRE could be used in a 802.16 deployment - it's the
case, so don't make GRE mandatory.

Alex


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