SK> we both know the answer to this. GRE/NVGRE/VXLAN (gpe) all have protocol 
fields. It is not the same as signaling geneve. This is about transport 
independence.
[PG] No I don’t know the answer, because VXLAN-GPE is not used today and 
hardware does not supporting offloading it. There is a proposal on generic UDP 
encapsulation which uses IP protocol number,

[Xiaohu] Did you mean 
http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-gre-in-udp-encap-01 ? If so, there 
is an ETYPE field in the GRE header which would be used for indicating the 
existence of metadata in the encapsulated packet.

Xiaohu

 how would you carry NSH in that? Isn’t that dictating that you would get 
transport independence only if you support encapsulating ETYPE? Btw think about 
other use case, how do you carry IPv6 in IP and Ethernet?

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