I'm not sure that the dust has fully settled on the matter. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-marques-l3vpn-end-system-07 suggests the use of XMPP. The question is whether there is any sound technical reason (versus preferences) why leveraging BGP is problematic. I personally haven't heard a convincing argument.
On Mon, Sep 17, 2012 at 12:11 PM, Stiliadis, Dimitrios (Dimitri) <[email protected]> wrote: > May be I missing something here .. but does this suggest running BGP-EVPN > on the NVE > that is located in the hypervisor? > > Dimitri > > On 9/17/12 8:55 AM, "Thomas Nadeau" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> A number of us just published this draft and wanted to bring it to the >>NVO3 WG's attention. We will be presenting/discussing this draft at the >>interim meeting this week as well, but please discuss here on the list as >>well. >> >> Thanks, >> >> Tom, John, et al >> >> >>A new version of I-D, draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane-00.txt >>has been successfully submitted by Thomas D. Nadeau and posted to the >>IETF repository. >> >>Filename: draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane >>Revision: 00 >>Title: A Control Plane for Network Virtualized Overlays >>Creation date: 2012-09-16 >>WG ID: Individual Submission >>Number of pages: 12 >>URL: >>http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane-00 >>.txt >>Status: >>http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane >>Htmlized: >>http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-drake-nvo3-evpn-control-plane-00 >> >> >>Abstract: >> The purpose of this document is to describe how Ethernet Virtual >> Private Network (E-VPN) can be used as the control plane for >> Network Virtual Overlays. Currently this protocol is defined to >> act as the control plane for Virtual Extensible Local Area >> Network (VXLAN), Network Virtualization using Generic Routing >> Encapsulation (NVGRE), MPLS or VLANs while maintaining their >> existing data plane encapsulations. The intent is that this >> protocol will be capable of extensions in the future to handle >> additinal data plane encapsulations and functions as needed. >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>nvo3 mailing list >>[email protected] >>https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3 > > _______________________________________________ > nvo3 mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3 _______________________________________________ nvo3 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3
