Hi Adrian,

Many thx for sharing the document. Just starting to read it one assertion
repeated at least twice got my attention:

"Segment routing (SR) [I-D.ietf-spring-segment-routing] is a popular
protocol mechanism for operating within a DC"

By "popular protocol mechanism" when building non blocking L3 CLOS IP
fabric are you referring to the below proposal or something else ?

https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-filsfils-spring-large-scale-interconnect-02

Also by "popular" do you mean something which is perhaps deployed in
production to any level or author's definition of "popular" refers to
something real deployment are yet to see ?

Honestly having been involved in building large scale data centers for the
last few years I have not see SR being anywhere close to be used there.
Especially MPLS flavor of it :)

If anything within DCs draft-lapukhov-bgp-sdn-00 is easy to use and
provides more then sufficient flexibility within properly constructed
intra-dc fabric in terms of traffic engineering.

Many thx,
Robert.


On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 7:42 PM, Adrian Farrel <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Just posted
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-drake-bess-datacenter-gateway/
>
> We think this covers an important hole. The document defines a mechanism
> using
> the BGP Tunnel Encapsulation attribute to allow each gateway router to
> advertise
> the routes to the prefixes in the data center site to which it provides
> access,
> and also to advertise on behalf of each other gateway to the same data
> center
> site.
>
> We posted this as  BESS draft, so discussion there, please until such time
> that
> the various chairs tell us to move the discussion somewhere else.
>
> Thanks,
> Adrian
>
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