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Sue,

Before getting to the discussions of the three IPsec proposals, there are some 
elements of draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps-17.txt that I can see might have 
caused some confusions and I’d like to get those sorted out first.

The tunnel-encap draft specifies sub-tlv for VxLAN, VxLAN GDP, and NVGRE in 
sections 3.2.1, 3.2.2, and 3.2.3. I am not aware of any vendor that has 
implemented these sub-tlvs because the info in these sub-tlv already exist in 
EVPN routes (e.g., MAC addresses, Ethernet Tags, etc.) which they have 
implemented it. Therefore, all the vendors that I am aware of use Extended 
Community  defined in section 4.1  along with EVPN routes to signal VxLAN and 
GENEVE tunnel types. Furthermore, I am not aware of anyone using NVGRE encap! 
So, as the first step, we should remove these three sections from the draft if 
there is no objection.

Cheers,
Ali

From: Susan Hares <[email protected]>
Date: Tuesday, July 28, 2020 at 8:30 AM
To: Cisco Employee <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Cc: "'Hu, Jun (Nokia - US/Mountain View)'" <[email protected]>
Subject: IPSec Tunnels and draft-sajassi-bess-secure-evpn

Ali and bess WG:

IDR has 3 proposals for IPsec tunnels that impact 
draft-ietf-idr-tunnel-encaps-17.txt.  As an IDR co-chair/shepherd,  I have been 
discussing these three drafts (Ali and two other authors sets) to try to find 
out if we can have one general solutions.

The discussion has been very fruitful to point up BGP issues of 
interoperability, security, privacy, manageability, and scaling.  For example, 
there is a lack of a clear specification between RFC6514 (PMSI tunnel 
attribute) and the tunnel-encaps draft that specifies how these drafts 
interoperate.  I suspect the bess and idr chairs will need to discuss if 
tunnel-encaps has to address this point.

I wrote up my ideas in draft-hares-idr-bgp-ipsec-analysis-00.txt so the authors 
could tell me what I misunderstood.   You’ll find this draft stops half way.  I 
have the rest of the draft written, but I wanted feedback from all the author 
teams before sending it out.

After hearing some of the details from the authors, I would like to sponsor an 
IDR interim so we could discuss these issues at length.   If you think this is 
a good idea, please let me know.

One other thing… unfortunately, I scheduled a set of meetings for EDT time 
after IETF meetings this week.   Your next response will occur from 11-16 UTC 
on Wednesday.

Cheerily, Sue


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