On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 3:46 PM, Ben Pfaff <b...@nicira.com> wrote:
> *** Tunnel encapsulation to publish.
>
>     We can probably default to GRE.  VXLAN is more modern but it only
>     has a 24-bit key.  STT has a 64-bit key but it's not ubiquitously
>     available.

What does ubiquitously available mean in this context? Of the tunnels
we have available (GRE, VXLAN, STT, Geneve), GRE seems a bit of an odd
choice since I think for most sets of constraints you could choose one
that is a better fit. (Even Microsoft is moving away from it for
network virtualization.)
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