Hi Linda,

See my answers inline.

Thanks,
Marc

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From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Linda 
Dunbar
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2013 11:33 PM
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Subject: [nvo3] FW: comments to draft-ietf-nvo3-dataplane-requirements-00


Nabil, et al:

Here are some comments and questions to your draft:

-        3.2.1: L2 VNI:

"..standard MAC learning procedures are used: The source MAC address is learned 
against the VAP or the NVO3 tunnel on which the frame arrived.."

Standard MAC learning is actually: Inner MAC Source address is learned to be 
mapped to the outer (IP) Source address.
No, this is an L2 service. MACs are learned against ports or tunnels and not IP 
addresses.


"..the NVE MUST either support ingress replication or multicast. In this latter 
case, the NVE MUST be able to build at least a default flooding tree per VNI. 
In such cases, multiple VNIs MAY share the same default flooding tree."

One sentence says "at least a default flooding tree per VNI". The next sentence 
says "multiple VNIs may share the same default flooding tree". It is 
inconsistent.
No, it is consistent. When flooding tree(s) are used, it is possible for to use 
shared multicast trees.

I don't think it is necessary to require that "NVE MUST be able to build one 
flooding tree per VNI". Besides, it is  not the NVE who builds the multicast 
tree.
Again, the beginning of  the sentence says that either ingress replication or 
flooding trees have to be supported and that flooding trees can be shared.
It is the NVE's responsibility to build such trees.



-        3.2.2: L3 VNI:
"L3 VNIs MUST support per-tenant forwarding instance with IP address 
isolation..."

Is it same as L3VPN requirement?
Yes.

"the inner TTL field MUST be decremented by (at least) 1 as if the NVO3 egress 
NVE was one (or more) hop(s) Away"

Is it referring to the Ingress  NVE decrementing the TTL by 1?
Yes
 Does Egress NVE also decrement the TTL by 1?
No
Why "Away" has to be capitalized?
It is a typo.


-        4.1.1. VPN and internet GWs:
"..The translation function SHOULD NOT require provisioning touches.."

GW will need external input to match the VPN ID to the NV03 VNID. It is the 
"provisioning".
Why you say "Should not"?
 Agree that this is ambiguous. It will be fixed in the next revision.

Linda Dunbar
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