Regional Technical Contacts

[Michael H Lambert <>]

Chris,

Are you including the GPO in the list of VLAN ownership?  For us and probably 
others, the biggest consumers of VLANs are GENI or exoGENI nodes.

Michael 

> On 7 Jun 2021, at 15:47, Chris Robb <> wrote:
> 
> Dave and Dave:
> 
> You both raise excellent points and it’s something we did consider. We gave 
> it some more thought this morning and will be doing a bit of additional 
> outreach to the owners of all the OESS circuits through the Connectors. It 
> will inform them of the maintenance window and invite them to join the 
> bridge. If they aren’t able to join the bridge, we’ll be also sending an 
> “all clear” message when we believe the maintenance has successfully 
> completed so that they may verify their side as soon as they are able. 
> Given our testing and experience, we don’t believe it will be a common 
> failure scenario where we’re able to recover some VLANs but not others. So, 
> if we verify the traffic we can observe more easily and can verify traffic 
> levels look like they’re returning on the L2 circuits, we have a high 
> amount of confidence the change was successful. 
> 
> -Chris