Subject: Getting started

From: [email-masked] (Scott Barvick)
Date: Wed, 28 Apr 93 09:29:31 EDT

To get things rolling on the enhancements, I (hopefully we 
can keep the company aspect out of this and just participate
as interested citizens) think that there are two categories of
enhancements to be discussed. 

The first consists of those features which IBM has already developed,
but not released or documented.  IBM has probably already worked out
the details, so I hope that in the interest of compatibility
for the rest of us, we can just get the necessary information through
this forum (before June!).  My list includes:

1) Flow control communication between switches - SSP message formats,
   state machine additions, etc.

2) DLS on ethernet.  Ethernet virtual ring numbers, LLC2 encapsulation type.

The second category includes the real future enhancements that we 
talked about at lunch.  The top of my list includes:

1)  Prioritization mechanisms

2)  Additional SDLC functionality

3)  Interoperability/conformance testing	

Scott Barvick
[email-masked]