I think the VRF lite text is ok. But, I agree with Thomas M. comments below
about the MPLS text.

 
> Hi Thomas,
> 
> Thomas Narten :
> [..snip...]
> > MPLS VRFs [RFC4364] place the  VRF functionality on the CE and PE
>  > devices, using MPLS encapsulation to preserve tenant separation
>  > between the CE and PE devices. Control plane protocols (e.g., LDP
>  > [RFC5036]) are used to set up the data path between PE and CE.
>  >
>  >Does that work?
> 
> The above paragraph has a lot of issues:
> - "MPLS VPNs" designate the service, "VRF" is the VPN-specific routing table
> - the VRFs are not on CE devices, not on PEs
> - there is no MPLS encapsulation between PE and CE, MPLS encapsulation
> is used between PE routers
> - LDP is not run between CE and PEs (is running between PE-P, P-P, but
> not always, e.g. not when MPLS/GRE is used)
> - a non-VPN IP routing protocol may be run between CEs and PEs (such as
> BGP or OSPF), static routing is another possibility
> (in the case where a carrier's-supporting-carrier approach is used,
> things differ from the above, but this is not the typical deployment)
> 

In addition, the text does not make clear that unlike VRF lite, BGP MPLS
VPNs do not rely on multiple instances of routing protocols, but instead
utilize a single control plane to advertise routes for all tenants while
at the same time enabling overlapping IP addresses and tenant separation.

>From the data path perspective, the most significant difference between
the NVGRE/VXLAN type proposals and MPLSoverGRE is that the tenant identifier
is global in the former and local in the latter. (ie in MPLSoGRE there
is a control plane (BGP) for distributing labels (ie tenant separators) between
service hops, while in the other proposals it is distributed globally and in 
the 
management plane). 


Dimitri

> Thanks,
> 
> -Thomas M.
> 
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