Re: [nvo3] Draft NVO3 WG Charter

Hi John,

But that is perfect example of the draft for nvo3 ! Especially since 
L3VPN WG is apparently closing down ....

Since you brought it ... are you and your affiliation support 
draft-marques-l3vpn-end-system ?

Regards,
R.

> Robert,
>
> As an example, please see: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-marques-l3vpn-end-system/
>
> Thanks,
>
> John
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Robert Raszuk [mailto:robert@raszuk.net]
>> Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 8:50 AM
>> To: John E Drake
>> Cc: david.black@emc.com; narten@us.ibm.com; nvo3@ietf.org; Ronald
>> Bonica; Nitin Bahadur; Adrian Farrel
>> Subject: Re: [nvo3] Draft NVO3 WG Charter
>>
>> Hi John,
>>
>>> [JD]  This is an assertion.  It is also the misses the fact that MPLS
>>> is only required to mux/demux packets at the edges of the VPN
>>> network.
>>
>> Let me observe that at least in some data centers the "edge of VPN" is
>> likely to be the hypervisor (with OVS) on the host machine. The reason
>> being that VMs residing on such host may belong to different customers.
>>
>> Could you describe how existing technologies would work in such case ?
>> Are you proposing to turn each host to be a PE ? Or are you worried
>> that
>> host has not sufficient forwarding power to act as PE so one would need
>> a dedicated hardware to be a PE ?
>>
>> Best regards,
>> R.
>
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