I guess, some of them belong to OAM. others?

-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Kreeger (kreeger) [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 4:54 PM
To: Thomas Narten; Yves Hertoghs (yhertogh)
Cc: [email protected]; Lucy yong
Subject: Re: [nvo3] No need for NVE-NVE control plane [was Re: Poll for WG 
adoption and IPR check for draft-narten-nvo3-arch-01.txt

Hi Thomas,

I agree with you about the types of NVE to NVE interactions, but if this isn't 
called a control protocol, what do we call it?  Do we need requirements for it?

Thanks, Larry

On 11/15/13 2:19 PM, "Thomas Narten" <[email protected]> wrote:

>NVO3 does not need an NVE to NVE control protocol.
>
>Calling this out explicitly, as it is consistent with the current 
>architecture document. There is no need for an NVE to NVE control 
>protocol, for the purpose of maintaining/populating the mapping tables. 
>There may well be interactions between NVEs, such as setting up 
>tunnels, creating security associations for protecting data plane 
>traffic, or providing error indications (e.g., equivalent of ICMP "TS 
>unreachable" responses).
>
>If folk disagree, now would be a good time to have that conversation.
>
>"Yves Hertoghs (yhertogh)" <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> >> I disagree with the need for an NVE to NVE control plane.
>> 
>> > [Lucy] do you think we need NVE-NVE control plane? I don’t think  
>> > this is what you mean from the following statement.
>> 
>> No we dont need an NVE to NVE control plane.
>> 
>> >> That doesn't mean that you can't colocate a portion of the 
>> >> distributed NVA with every NVE, which is the model that e.g. 
>> >> BGP/L3VPN or ISIS/TRILL uses.
>> 
>> > [Lucy] Agreed. NVA can collocate w/ NVE. (partially or entire).
>> 
>> And as a result there is only a need for a control plane between the 
>> NVE function and the NVA function.
>
>Thomas
>

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