Reforwarding in case it did not come through.

-Vishwas

On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 4:10 PM, Vishwas Manral <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> I looked at the draft and here are my first pass comments:
>
> 1. Abstract - I am not happy with the mention of NIC in the abstract, what
> happens in case of LOM's. I think we should just state network hardware
> instead of NIC.
>
> 2. Abstract - I agree with the idea of the statement:
> Use of an overlay-based approach enables scalable deployment on large
> network infrastructures.
>
> From the edge perspective however overlays cause scalability limitations,
> however P2P models work well as the edge is not loaded (take the case of
> IPsec tunnels versus MPLS VPN). So I think you may want to clarify the
> statement.
>
> 3. Introduction - We talk about tenant having expectation of separation of
> resources. We however only talk of traffic separation in the whole
> document. Are there other resources we are considering here? If so we may
> want to state them.
>
> 4. In the document the assumption seems to be that each end station can
> connect to "a" virtual network. Is that what we intend to state or do we
> also consider connecting to multiple networks - though for each we could
> have a different MAC address?
>
> 5. Section 2.1 - In my view Multi-tenancy and elasticity impose different
> requirements and should be treated as different problems.
>
> 6. Section 2.2 - Besides retaining IP/ MAc, we also need to retain the
> port numbers, assume TCP.
>
> 7. Section 2.2 - We talk about "today" IP address based on ToR. I think we
> should state in traditional DC etc. Also it should go before we talk about
> VM/ vMotion etc.
>
> 8. Section 2.5 - I think another idea should be that we need to allow the
> tenant to do addressing irrespective of the infrastructure, to have clear
> tenant/ provider boundaries.
>
>
> 9. Section 2.6, another use case is the fact that there will be
> communication required between devices in the DC and end points in the
> branch/ campus network, which may not support the NVO3 functionality.
>
> 10. Section 2.7, why would sparsely populated members in a DC be highly
> distributed, as a general characteristic.
>
> 11. Section 2.7, though the network infrastructure is administered by a
> single domain, in my view the virtual infrastructure should be independent
> of the physical one and should be operated by the tenant infrastructure.
> Look at the case of Vyatta like routers that can be spun on demand.
>
> Typo
> --------
> 1. s/ resiliancy/resiliency
> 2. s/ trade offs/ tradeoffs
>
> Thanks,
> Vishwas
>
>
>
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