> 
> Nothing against leveraging BGP. Doing BGP at end-hosts is clearly a
> problem.  XMPP is an
> option, but not the only one.

That's right.
Some providers are looking for a solution where network virtualization 
forwarding and control functions are fully decoupled, and where only the 
forwarding function (i.e., overlay encapsulation function) is implemented on, 
e.g., the application servers.

Maria

 
> Dimitri
> 
> On 9/17/12 12:18 PM, "Aldrin Isaac" <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >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.
> >>>
> >>>
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