Re: [nvo3] Call for WG Adoption of draft-herbert-gue-03

[Jesse Gross <[e-mail]>]

On 3/19/15, 1:27 PM, "Tom Herbert" <[e-mail]> wrote:

>On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 11:31 AM, Benson Schliesser
><[e-mail]> wrote:
>> This message starts a 2-week Call for Adoption of draft-herbert-gue-03
>>as a
>> NVO3 WG item.
>>
>Benson asked me to query the list on this...
>
>There is a subtlety for GUE.
>
>draft-herbert-gue-03 specifies GUE as a generic encapsulation
>protocol.The use of GUE for network virtualization is specified in
>draft-hy-nvo3-gue-4-nvo-01. We also specified the security which I
>believe is critical to NVO3 deployment in
>draft-hy-gue-4-secure-transport-01.
>
>I personally think it's a good idea to keep the general specification
>somewhat decoupled from the network virtualization use case as we are
>already seeing deployment use cases for that. But for purposes of WG
>adoption in NVO3 these is a question as to how we should proceed:
>
>Should we request WG adoption for each of these?
>Is it okay to just request adoption of the primary GUE draft?
>Should we consolidate these into one draft for NVO3 purposes?

I agree that it is nicer to keep the different components decoupled. I
would start with just the adoption of the base draft and go from there to
keep things simpler but that¹s just my personal opinion, I don¹t think it
really matters all that much.