Subject: Proposal to change CVs X'4693'-X'4696' to non-canonical for TR

From: "Ed Tremblay (254-5515)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 94 13:24:18 EDT

During the APPN Reference SIG at AIW6 last week, a clarification
entitled "Encoding MAC address on TG Descriptor" was discussed.  This
item describes the use of non-canonical (MSB) encoding for a Token-Ring
MAC address.  This conflicts with the DLC signalling information formats
for Token-Ring in CVs X'4693' through '4696', which require canonical
(LSB) encoding for Token-Ring MAC and SAP addresses.

The approach to correct this conflict, agreed to by a concensus of the
SIG, is to change the DLC signalling information formats to use
non-canonical encodings for Token-Ring MAC and SAP addresses only.  This
change will impact the Token-Ring definitions of CVs X'4693'
(destination SAP), X'4694' (destination MAC), X'4695' (source SAP), and
X'4696' (source MAC).

If there are no objections to this proposal, I will update the formats
and submit them for SIG approval following the usual process.

Ed