Larry, On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 6:18 PM, Larry Kreeger (kreeger) <[email protected]> wrote: > > > If I can restate what I think you two agree on, it is: If VXLAN evolves > independently from VXLAN GPE, then a VXLAN GPE endpoint that understands > only how to be backward compatible with RFC7348 VXLAN will not be able to > be compatible with the unknown evolution of RFC748. > > For this reason, I would discourage anyone from taking RFC7348 VXLAN on a > separate evolutionary path from VXLAN than what VXLAN GPE is. I would > encourage any IETF work on evolving VXLAN to instead evolve VXLAN GPE > which has an actual version field to prevent unknown forwarding behavior > from occurring if a VXLAN GPE version 0 endpoint receives an evolved (next > version) of VXLAN GPE. >
It is for that reason that I suggested tightening the text. Anoop
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