Hi Thomas,

On Sep 27, 2012, at 14:31, Thomas Narten <[email protected]> wrote:

> One of the things I've been meaning to clarify here is what is the
> defintion of a CUG?
> 
> In offlist discussions I've had, I've come to the conclusion that a
> CUG is the same thing as a VN. That is, it's a set of machine that are
> administratively placed into a group and are allowed to communicate
> with each other, but not with others outside of that CUG.
>  
> Correct?

Almost. Entities inside a CUG may communicate to entities outside through a 
policy specified by the appropriate administrator. the default policy is as you 
say: no communication. 

> And,  RFC 4364 says:

Essentially, RFC 4364 defined an L3 CUG, and the EVPN draft an L2 CUG. 

Kireeti

>>   Suppose it is desired to create a fully meshed closed user group,
>>   i.e., a set of sites where each can send traffic directly to the
>>   other, but traffic cannot be sent to or received from other sites.
>>   Then each site is associated with a VRF, a single Route Target
>>   attribute is chosen, that Route Target is assigned to each VRF as
>>   both the Import Target and the Export Target, and that Route Target
>>   is not assigned to any other VRFs as either the Import Target or the
>>   Export Target.
> 
> Is there another (different?) definition of CUG?
> 
> Thomas
> 
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