If a reference to RFC6831 is provided, then there are many details on how an 
underlay can support ASM, Bidir, and SSM.

Dino

> On May 24, 2016, at 11:35 AM, Williamson, Beau <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> I'd like to see Section 3.4, "IP multicast in the underlay" expanded a bit.  
> 
> The section mentions the use of BIDIR for a scalable underlay.  The sad fact 
> is that many vendors still do not fully support BIDIR in their devices (after 
> how many years?) or have limitations on its use that preclude it as a viable 
> option.  I'm no expert in these Underlay sort of DC to DC networks but it 
> seems that SSM would not have that issue since it is basically a subset (and 
> much simpler to implement and configure) of the PIM protocol and would 
> therefore be available in pretty much all vendor devices that support 
> multicast.  The problem is one of Source Discovery of the VTEPs (or, in the 
> case of this draft I think the term is NVE) which would be the sources of the 
> multicast traffic in each TS.
> 
> At the very least, I'd like to see a paragraph discussing the possible use of 
> SSM as an alternative to BIDIR if the VTEP/NVE devices had a way to learn of 
> each other's IP address so that they could join all SSM SPT's to 
> create/maintain an underlay SSM IP Multicast tunnel solution.  This would 
> greatly simplify the configuration and management of the underlay IP 
> Multicast environment.
> 
> I realize that the VTEP/NVE Source Discovery problem is beyond the scope of 
> this Framework document but I'd like to see the above mentioned to possibly 
> encourage more work in this area if it is not already underway.
> 
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: MBONED [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dino Farinacci
> Sent: Tuesday, May 24, 2016 12:21 PM
> To: Bocci, Matthew (Nokia - GB)
> Cc: MBONED WG; <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [MBONED] NVO3 Multicast Framework
> 
> Sorry, I thought I had. NVo3, see my comments below.
> 
> Dino
> 
>> On May 24, 2016, at 6:14 AM, Bocci, Matthew (Nokia - GB) 
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Dino
>> 
>> Could you copy NVO3 on your comments, please?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Matthew
>> 
>> From: EXT Dino Farinacci <[email protected]>
>> Date: Monday, 16 May 2016 at 23:31
>> To: Leonard Giuliano <[email protected]>
>> Cc: MBONED WG <[email protected]>, Matthew Bocci 
>> <[email protected]>, Benson Schliesser <[email protected]>
>> Subject: Re: [MBONED] NVO3 Multicast Framework
>> 
>> I just have one minor comment. Regarding the second paragraph:
>> 
>> <PastedGraphic-2.png>
>> 
>> Using LISP-signal-free does not mean the head-end must do replication. The 
>> draft indicates that a mapping system is used to decide where packets go. If 
>> the mapping database indicates that packets are encapsulated to multicast 
>> RLOCs, or unicast RLOCs, or both in one set, so be it.
>> 
>> And note if there is a single multicast RLOC, then there is no replication 
>> happening at the head-end, just one packet encapsulting multicast in 
>> multicast.
>> 
>> So what is written above is true, but it may be associated with an incorrect 
>> section title.
>> 
>> Dino
>> 
>>> On May 12, 2016, at 2:52 PM, Leonard Giuliano <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> MBONED,
>>> 
>>> The following draft recently went through WG last call in the NVO3 working 
>>> group:
>>> 
>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-nvo3-mcast-framework/
>>> 
>>> This doc covers multicast in data center overlay networks.  As you know, it 
>>> is part of our charter in MBONED to provide feedback to other relevant 
>>> working groups.  Please review and send any comments to the NVO3 WG mailing 
>>> list ([email protected])- all comments will be greatly appreciated by NVO3.
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