Hello Thomas, I think the draft is useful however as communicated to authors of this draft on 2nd Aug 2011 I am of the opinion that it should be extended to accomodate even further scaling enhancements not just for SP PEs but also for actual customer VPN sites.
What I have suggested over a year ago was the extension of this proposal to CSC case where virtual hub is placed in the service provider network as given customer's VPN hub and where optimal forwarding decision can be computed for routing site to site customer traffic. That idea is in fact simpler then the one proposed in the current draft as it does not require import/export RT configuration at the virtual hub. Instead just like in plane vanilla CSC case each customer's routes are handled separately and placed into appropriate virtual hub. Moreover even going further scaling of such virtual hubs residing in strategic locations of SP core infrastructure could be accomplished with simple grid computing or distributed routing platforms being fully transparent to any need for additional PE's configuration or what perhaps is more important any per VPN churn in routing information. To realize this model non of the currently deployed PEs would need to be upgraded or even reconfigured provided given SP already provides CSC service. Last but not least the data plane outer encapsulation of such virtual hub could be IP (GRE) therefor opening new opportunities for offering CSC type of VPNs for much larger customer base then currently limited to only those sites which are directly attached to given's SP infrastructure. Best regards, R. On Thu, Oct 4, 2012 at 11:35 AM, Thomas Morin <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello working group, > > This email starts a two-week Working Group Last Call on > draft-ietf-l3vpn-virtual-hub, which is considered mature and ready for a > working group review. > > Please read the document if you haven't read the most recent version, and > send your comments to the list, no later than Thursday October 18th. > > Thank you, > > -Thomas & Martin > > [ http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-l3vpn-virtual-hub ]
