On 7/26/2016 11:59 AM, Michael Smith (michsmit) wrote:
> Agreed. Given that considerable time has past since the initial decision
> and as long as we are re-visiting it, why not adopt VXLAN ? It has seen
> considerable deployment and implementation. Its format is compatible with
> LISP which serves to provide a common frame format for L2 and L3 overlays.
> One issue raised in the meeting was that VXLAN is an independent track
> RFC. I may be naïve, but this seems fairly easy to remedy. Worst case,
> call it something else, change the UDP port number (I’m not aware of any
> hardware implementations that couldn’t handle changing the port number),

All recent assignments are *required* to support in-band versioning, so
at worst a version number bump would be sufficient.

Joe


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