> On Jun 29, 2012, at 2:52 PM, Thomas Narten wrote:
> 
> > > Pedro Roque Marques <[email protected]> writes:
> > >
> > >> I object to the document on the following points:
> > >
> > >> 1) It doesn't appear to recognize that there are multiple type of
> > >> data-center deployments with different requirements.
> > >
> > > I'd like to hear more from others on this point.
> > >
> > > Please provide some examples of differences in DC deployments and
> > > *how* they impact NVO3, either from a problem statement perspective
> or
> > > from a framework perspective.

<snip>
 
> > 3) Whether the underlying network can be assumed to support
> >  broadcast/multicast services.
> 
> It cannot. At least, this is what everyone I've asked has said. I.e.,
> use it if available and makes sense, but one cannot assume it's
> present. There are numerous DCs where multicast is not supported.

Does this mean that a solution such as proposed in 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-mahalingam-dutt-dcops-vxlan-01 is out of scope 
of nvo3?

Maria
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