Just a light content comment (summary does reflect the meeting content in my 
view)

Seems perfectly logical that an Overlay will need a method of sharing global 
information per entities "beyond" the Underlay, and that it's "Oracle-Like" 
mechanism e.g you ask it questions and get answers .. even in Delphi the Oracle 
didn't pre guess questions ... 

.. Also mapping /IMA seems a perfectly reasonable reduction of what this 
service offers, and distributed directory captures how it offers it - after all 
if there is an Overlay there is also an Underlay - a perfectly functioning 
network to anchor such s mechanism ..

What's not clear is why insisting on BGP if there is a clear claim BGP is not a 
directory oriented protocol ? 

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On Apr 8, 2013, at 6:12 PM, "Larry Kreeger (kreeger)" <[email protected]> wrote:

> At the NVO3 WG meeting in Orlando, I brought up some suggestions for 
> terminology changes/additions and had an AI to bring this to the list…so here 
> goes.  I would prefer to see constructive suggestions in responses.  In other 
> words, please suggest something better if you object to these.
> 
> 1) Oracle -> Information Mapping Authority
> 
> Stewart mentioned that he has copyright concerns with using the term 
> "oracle", and others have expressed distaste as well.  In 
> draft-kreeger-nvo3-hypervisor-nve-cp-01 we replaced the term with 
> "Information Mapping Authority" (IMA).  We would like to get consensus on 
> using this new term in all WG documents going forward.  In the meeting Linda  
> expressed a concern that IMA might get confused with IMA being confused with 
> the acronym for Inverse Multiplexing for ATM, and suggested something like 
> "Directory Service" to which David Black replied that she might have trouble 
> convincing people that BGP can be categorized as a "Directory Service".
> 
> 2) VNIC -> Tenant System Interface
> 
> The term VNIC is actually used in the framework document, but never defined.  
> In kreeger-nvo3-hypervisor-nve-cp-01 we defined a VNIC as "A Virtual NIC that 
> connects a Tenant System to a Virtual Network Instance (VNI)."  In NVO3 
> (myself included) we often use VM when we are talking about "Tenant Systems" 
> and talk about VMs connecting to a VNI; However, a VM can actually connect to 
> multiple VNIs through multiple VNICs…but VNICs are very specific to Virtual 
> Machines.  If we are to use the more correct "Tenant System" instead of VM, 
> we should use a more generic term for the interface on the tenant system 
> itself than VNIC.  We have suggested using "Tenant System Interface" (TSI) 
> for this, which we would like to see formally defined in the Framework 
> document and shown to correspond with VAPs within the NVE.
> 
> Looking forward to your feedback, Larry
> 
> 
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