Table of Contents

1. Overview
2. Normative references
3. Definitions
4. Abbreviations
5. Conformance
6. Support of the MAC Service
7. Principles of Virtual Bridged Network operation
8. Principles of Bridge operation
9. Tagged frame format
10. Multiple Registration Protocol (MRP) and Multiple
    MAC Registration Protocol (MMRP)
11. VLAN topology management
12. Bridge management
13. Spanning tree protocols
14. Encoding of Bridge Protocol Data Units (BPDUs)
15. Support of the MAC Service by PBNs
16. Principles of Provider Bridged Network (PBN)
    operation
17. Management Information Base (MIB)
18. Principles of Connectivity Fault Management
    operation
19. CFM entity operation
20. CFM protocols
21. Encoding of CFM PDUs
22. CFM in systems
23. MAC status propagation
24. Bridge performance
25. Support of the MAC Service by PBBNs
26. Principles of Provider Backbone Bridged Network
    (PBBN) operation
27. Shortest Path Bridging (SPB)
28. ISIS-SPB Link State Protocol
29. DDCFM operations and protocols
30. Principles of congestion notification
31. Congestion notification entity operation
32. Congestion notification protocol
33. Encoding of congestion notification PDUs
34. Forwarding and Queuing Enhancements for
    time-sensitive streams (FQTSS)
35. Stream Reservation Protocol (SRP)
36. Priority-based Flow Control (PFC)
37. Enhanced Transmission Selection (ETS)
38. Data Center Bridging eXchange protocol (DCBX)
39. Multiple I-SID Registration Protocol (MIRP)
40. Edge Virtual Bridging (EVB)
41. VSI Discovery and Configuration Protocol (VDP)
42. S-Channel Discovery and Configuration Protocol
    (CDCP)
43. Edge Control Protocol (ECP)
44. Equal Cost Multiple Paths (ECMP)
Annex A (normative) - PICS proforma-Bridge
        implementations
Annex B (normative) - PICS proforma-End station
        implementations
Annex C (normative) - Designated MSRP Node
        (DMN) Implementations
Annex D (normative) - IEEE 802.1 Organizationally
        Specific TLVs
Annex E (normative) - Notational conventions used
        in state diagrams
Annex F (informative) - Shared and Independent
        VLAN Learning (SVL and IVL)
Annex G (informative) - MAC method-dependent
         aspects of VLAN support
Annex H (informative) - Interoperability considerations
Annex I (informative) - Priority and drop precedence
Annex J (informative) - CFM protocol design and use
Annex K (informative) - TPMR use cases
Annex L (informative) - Operation of the credit-based
        shaper algorithm
Annex M (normative) - Support for PFC in link layers
        without MAC Control
Annex N (informative) - Buffer requirements for PFC
Annex O (informative) - Preserving the integrity of FCS
        fields in MAC Bridges
Annex P (informative) - Frame duplication and misordering
Annex Q (informative) - Bibliography

Abstract

Defines Bridges that interconnect individual LANs, each supporting the IEEE 802 MAC Service using a different or identical media access control method, to provide Bridged Networks and VLANs.

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Document Type	Standard
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Publisher	Canadian Standards Association
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