Re: [Stackevo-discuss] [5gangip] [gaia] 5G: It's the Network, Stupid

VPNs often have a lot of baggage, notably that an end system can belong
to only one at a time.

Slices have the baggage that a process can belong to only one slice at a
time.

I don't know if we strictly need a new term - virtual networks seems
fine to me (which, IMO, are synonymous with overlays) - but VPNs of all
types and slices have this baggage that is useful to avoid.

Joe

On 12/22/2015 8:57 AM, Dino Farinacci wrote:
> Why does yet another term need to be defined for what has been traditionally called a multi-tenant VPN. 
> 
> Dino
> 
>> On Dec 21, 2015, at 3:55 PM, Joe Touch <touch@isi.edu> wrote:
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>>
>>
>> On 12/17/2015 9:49 AM, Linda Dunbar wrote:
>>> I strongly support the concept of network slicing for Applications or IoT networks. 
>>
>> FWIW, I do not - in specific, I support the notion of per-service
>> overlays, but would not call them "slices".
>>
>> Slices are an artifact of an OS-view of the network. It's a network
>> partitioning model that considers cross-overlay interaction only as a
>> violation of the model itself.
>>
>> We should be careful to consider that networks end at network interfaces
>> and network interface names, not OS partitions - and OS partitions are
>> the baggage that comes with the term "slice".
>>
>> Joe
>>
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