Re: [dc] draft-khasnabish-vmmi-problems-00.txt

Thomas Narten <narten@us.ibm.com> Thu, 19 January 2012 17:49 UTC

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Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:47:27 -0500
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Steven,

> Several system vendors (myself included) stood up in Taipei and said
> "one encapsulation, please".  If IETF can facilitate industry
> convergence on a small set of NVO3 encapsulations (preferably one), that
> would be a big win for Ethernet switch vendors.

I agree completely.

But my questions were asking about the apparent lack of  interest from
operators/implementers/market players regarding Bhumip's draft and the
apparent desire to have some sort of standards work related to the
general VM migration problem.

Is there such interest?

Thomas