Re: [nvo3] I-D Action: draft-ietf-nvo3-encap-06.txt

[Donald Eastlake <[e-mail]>]

This revision updates referenced document status for the publication
of the Geneve RFC and the gue draft moving from nvo3 to intarea. It
also has minor editorial improvements.

Thanks,
Donald
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On Wed, Jun 9, 2021 at 6:20 AM <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories.
> This draft is a work item of the Network Virtualization Overlays WG of the IETF.
>
>         Title           : NVO3 Encapsulation Considerations
>         Authors         : Sami Boutros
>                           Donald E. Eastlake
>         Filename        : draft-ietf-nvo3-encap-06.txt
>         Pages           : 24
>         Date            : 2021-06-09
>
> Abstract:
>    As communicated by the WG Chairs, the IETF NVO3 chairs and Routing
>    Area director have chartered a design team to take forward the
>    encapsulation discussion and see if there is potential to design a
>    common encapsulation that addresses the various technical concerns.
>
>    There are implications of different encapsulations in real
>    environments consisting of both software and hardware implementations
>    and spanning multiple data centers.  For example, OAM functions such
>    as path MTU discovery become challenging with multiple encapsulations
>    along the data path.
>
>    The design team recommends Geneve with a few modifications as the
>    common encapsulation. This document provides more details,
>    particularly in Section 7.
>
>
>
> The IETF datatracker status page for this draft is:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nvo3-encap/
>
> There is also an htmlized version available at:
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-nvo3-encap-06
>
> A diff from the previous version is available at:
> https://www.ietf.org/rfcdiff?url2=draft-ietf-nvo3-encap-06
>
>
> Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at:
> ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-drafts/