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[Chris Robb <>]

Yes, they would show up as an owner, so they should get contacted. However, 
since they’re pretty pervasive across the network, it’s probably a good idea 
to do a quick level set with them as a separate communication. Good idea. 

-Chris

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> On Jun 7, 2021, at 9:04 PM, Michael H Lambert <> wrote:
> 
> 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
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