I know it's tempting to dive into technology details and micro-optimization,
but can we please stay focused.

This is already a rather long thread - and I am strongly hoping to hear
from those
who aren't championing their own technology.

The question is:

(1) Should the WG move forward with one standards track encap?

I've heard a lot of concern that we just can't do it, that it's too late,
etc.
I personally feel that neither of these is true.  Working Groups do move
past these
challenging consensus discussions and go on to be successful and have
impact.

We can always flip a coin - if the solutions are technically equivalent and
so is the
support.

I personally strongly believe that it will be useful for the IETF to have a
single standards track
solution.

Regards,
Alia


On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:32 PM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:

> Read BCP 165.
>
> The cost to your protocol is as little as 1 bit and it protects a global
> resource.
>
> Joe
>
> > On Jul 26, 2016, at 12:22 PM, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >
> > Now, let’s think about this. Why waste 4-bits or a byte for every single
> packet when the UDP port number can be your version number. That UDP port
> number has to be in every single packet anyways.
> >
> > Why keep the port number the same and change the version number when the
> same cost of product change will occur. To save UDP port numbers?
> >
> > What if people wanted to filter v1 versus v2, doing it with a UDP port
> number is a simpler and already deployed way to differentiate services. Now
> those middle boxes have to look even deeper into the header?
> >
> > Lets be practical,
> > Dino
> >
> >> On Jul 26, 2016, at 12:13 PM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>> 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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