Agreed! 

Thanks David!

> On Feb 4, 2014, at 5:55 AM, Thomas Narten <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dave.
> 
> Your changes look like useful clarifications and I've applied them to
> my copy. Thanks!
> 
> Thomas
> 
> At Tue, 4 Feb 2014 01:05:12 +0000, David Allan I wrote:
>> 
>> Minor nit/suggestion
>> 
>> In the first paragraph would c/can carry/may include encapsulated/ be
>> clearer?
>> 
>> And in that vein, I think in the subsequent text we are referring to
>> the notion that the NVO3 network does not use encapsulated tags in
>> deciding how to forward traffic. Prior to encapsulation they do
>> matter, but indirectly, as that is on ingress to the NVE. So the
>> subsequent text should be " but does not use encapsulated tags in
>> deciding where and how to forward traffic."
>> 
>> Make sense?  Dave
>> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: nvo3 [mailto:[email protected]]
>> On Behalf Of Thomas Narten Sent: Monday, February 03, 2014 11:58 AM
>> To: [email protected] Subject: [nvo3] NVO3 Arch: Proposed text on VLANs in
>> L2 Service
>> 
>> Hi.
>> 
>> Here is proposed text on the topic of VLANs in L2 Service.
>> 
>> For terminology section:
>> 
>> 
>>      <t hangText="VLAN">
>>        Unless stated otherwise, the terms VLAN and VLAN Tag are
>>        used in this document denote a C-VLAN and the terms are
>>        used interchangably to improve readability.
>>      </t>
>> 
>> Note; Following goes as a subsection withink 3.1 (at end of section)
>> 
>> <section anchor="vlan-tags-section" title="VLAN Tags in L2 Service">
>>    <t>
>>      An NVO3 L2 virtual network service can carry L2 VLAN tags
>>      provided by a Tenant System, but does not use them in deciding
>>      where and how to forward traffic. Such VLAN tags can be passed
>>      through, so that Tenant Systems that send or expect to receive
>>      them can be supported as appropriate.
>>    </t> <t>
>>      The processing of VLAN tags that an NVE receives from a TS is
>>      controlled by settings associated with the VAP. Just as in the
>>      case with ports on Ethernet switches, a number of settings could
>>      be imagined. For example, C-TAGs can be passed through
>>      transparently, they could always be stripped upon receipt from a
>>      Tenant System, they could be compared against a list of
>>      explicitely confiured tags, etc.
>>    </t> <t>
>>      Note that the handling of C-VIDs has additional complications,
>>      as described in <xref target="vlan-tags-split-nve"/> below.
>>    </t>
>> </section>
>> 
>> Note: the following goes as a new subection 4.2.1 (subsection of
>> Split-NVE)
>> 
>> <section anchor="vlan-tags-split-nve" title="Tenant VLAN handling in
>> Split-NVE Case">
>>  <t>
>>    Preserving tenant VLAN tags across a NVO3 as described in <xref
>>    target="vlan-tags-section"/> poses additional complications in the
>>    split-NVE case. The portion of the NVE that performs the
>>    encapsulation function needs access to the specific VLAN tags that
>>    the Tenant System is using in order to include them in the
>>    encapsulated packet. When an NVE is implemented entirely within
>>    the hypervisor, the NVE has access to the complete original packet
>>    (including any VLAN tags) sent by the tenant. In the split-NVE
>>    case, however, the VLAN tag used between the hypervisor and
>>    offloaded portions of the NVE normally only identify the specific
>>    VN that traffic belongs. In order to allow a tenant to preserve
>>    VLAN information in the split-NVE case, additional mechanisms
>>    would be needed.
>>      </t>
>> </section>
>> 
>> Comments?
>> 
>> Thomas
>> 
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