Hi,

I read the I-D and I have some clarification questions:

-          If tunneling using the new modes described in this document is going 
to be possible to endpoints different from the AC, is it expected for these 
endpoints to run all the discovery and advertising protocols? This seems to be 
a change from the traditional CAPWAP architecture that may have scalability and 
security implications - at least this needs to be prompted and discussed. At 
this point the document does not even mention that it updates RFC 5415 and RFC 
5416.

-          What is the advantage of tunneling non-management data frames using 
the new encapsulation modes vs. bridging them using the local bridging mode in 
RFC 5416? The document needs to explain this.

-          Why does the document take the approach of defining a new alternate 
tunnel encapsulation message? Would it not be possible to define new values in 
the Tunnel Mode enumeration defined in Section 6.1 of RFC 5416?

Thanks and Regards,

Dan


From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of 
Rajesh Pazhyannur (rpazhyan)
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2013 2:08 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [OPSAWG] Seeking discussion on "Alternate Tunnel Encapsulation for 
Data Frames in CAPWAP"

Hello

We have resubmitted a new version of the draft titled "Alternate Tunnel 
Encapsulation for Data Frames in CAPWAP", 
http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-zhang-opsawg-capwap-cds/.
The previous version was titled: "Separation of CAPWAP Control and Data Plane: 
Scenarios, Requirements and Solutions". Based on discussion in the last IETF, 
we reworked the draft.

The draft provides a reason for the need for WTP to have additional tunnel 
(beyond CAPWAP) encapsulations for user traffic. It enables a WTP to advertise 
the capability to support such alternate tunnel encapsulation and the AC to 
configure such tunnel encapsulation on the WTP.  The alternate tunnel 
encapsulation allows 1) the WTP to tunnel non-management data frames to an 
endpoint different from the AC and 2) allows the WTP to tunnel using one of 
many known ecapsulation types such as IP-IP, IP-GRE, CAPWAP.

We would like to get it adopted as a working group item and would like feedback 
on whether we are on track.

Regards

Rajesh


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