On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 12:41 PM, Linda Dunbar <linda.dun...@huawei.com> wrote:
> Tom,
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> Are you saying that the term “VM” should only be described in motivation and
> the proposed scheme should work for address mobility enabled by any methods?
>
Yes, that is my hope, with the constraint that this solution is for
address mobility in realm DC network virtualization (i.e. this should
not be reinventing mobile IP for instance)

Tom

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> Linda
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> From: nvo3 [mailto:nvo3-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Tom Herbert
> Sent: Monday, October 06, 2014 2:16 PM
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> While it's a better title, I think my comment was meant to be more general.
> VMs (and hypervisors) are references to specific mechanisms of server
> virtualization, but not the only mechanisms that can be deployed (e.g.
> container virtualization is not normally a VM and does not have an explicit
> hypervisor). VM is really just one use case of network virtualization and
> not in itself a networking term, so I think that mechanisms or protocols for
> network virtualization really should be described without reference to VMs
> unless there really is something VM specific about that.
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> Tom
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>> Anyone has better suggestions?
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>> Thank, Linda
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: nvo3 [mailto:nvo3-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Black, David
>> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 8:15 PM
>> To: Tom Herbert
>> Cc: nvo3@ietf.org
>> Subject: Re: [nvo3] FW: New Version Notification for
>> draft-merged-nvo3-vm-mobility-scheme-00.txt
>>
>>> I would suggest that "Address mobility scheme" might be a better
>>> title. VM migration is one instance of when we need address mobility,
>>> but we'll need this in with container migration or when we just want
>>> to move an virtual address between servers.
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>> I agree, and I think Larry pointed this out earlier.
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>>> Also, w.r.t. VM or
>>> container migration, addresses are not the only networking state we
>>> need to consider, we need consider how to move connection state (e.g.
>>> open TCP connections bond to the address being moved)-- this seems to
>>> be out of scope for this draft.
>>
>> OTOH, I would caution about getting too involved in this as both ends of
>> the spectrum of connection state preservation are reasonable and used in
>> practice:
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>> - VM live migration preserves TCP connections and the like.
>> - IP address takeover on hardware failure doesn't preserve
>>         anything whose state was solely on the hardware that's now a
>>         smoking pile of parts.
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>> Thanks,
>> --David
>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Tom Herbert [mailto:therb...@google.com]
>>> Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 9:04 PM
>>> To: Linda Dunbar
>>> Cc: nvo3@ietf.org; Larry Kreeger (kreeger); Black, David
>>> Subject: Re: [nvo3] FW: New Version Notification for
>>> draft-merged-nvo3-vm- mobility-scheme-00.txt
>>>
>>> On Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 10:22 AM, Linda Dunbar <linda.dun...@huawei.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > As NVO3 new charter encourage solutions proposals, we added more
>>> comprehensive solutions for the issues described in the
>>> draft-ietf-nvo3-vm- mobility-issues. We now call it
>>> "draft-merged-nvo3-vm-mobility-scheme-00"
>>> >
>>> I would suggest that "Address mobility scheme" might be a better
>>> title. VM migration is one instance of when we need address mobility,
>>> but we'll need this in with container migration or when we just want
>>> to move an virtual address between servers. Also, w.r.t. VM or
>>> container migration, addresses are not the only networking state we
>>> need to consider, we need consider how to move connection state (e.g.
>>> open TCP connections bond to the address being moved)-- this seems to
>>> be out of scope for this draft.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
>>> > Comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated.
>>> >
>>> > Linda
>>> >
>>> > -----Original Message-----
>>> > From: internet-dra...@ietf.org [mailto:internet-dra...@ietf.org]
>>> > Sent: Friday, October 03, 2014 12:18 PM
>>> > To: Rahul Aggarwal; Wim Henderickx; Ravi Shekhar; Luyuan Fang; Linda
>>> > Dunbar;
>>> Rahul Aggarwal; Luyuan Fang; Wim Henderickx; Ravi Shekhar; Yakov
>>> Rekhter; Yakov Rekhter; Linda Dunbar; Ali Sajassi; Ali Sajassi
>>> > Subject: New Version Notification for
>>> > draft-merged-nvo3-vm-mobility-scheme-
>>> 00.txt
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > A new version of I-D, draft-merged-nvo3-vm-mobility-scheme-00.txt
>>> > has been successfully submitted by Linda Dunbar and posted to the
>>> > IETF
>>> repository.
>>> >
>>> > Name:           draft-merged-nvo3-vm-mobility-scheme
>>> > Revision:       00
>>> > Title:          NVO3 VM Mobility Scheme
>>> > Document date:  2014-10-03
>>> > Group:          Individual Submission
>>> > Pages:          24
>>> > URL:
>>> > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-merged-nvo3-vm-
>>> mobility-scheme-00.txt
>>> > Status:         https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-merged-nvo3-vm-
>>> mobility-scheme/
>>> > Htmlized:
>>> > http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-merged-nvo3-vm-mobility-
>>> scheme-00
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Abstract:
>>> >    This document describes the schemes to overcome the network-related
>>> >    issues to achieve seamless Virtual Machine mobility in the data
>>> >    center and between data centers.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > Please note that it may take a couple of minutes from the time of
>>> > submission
>>> until the htmlized version and diff are available at tools.ietf.org.
>>> >
>>> > The IETF Secretariat
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