Hi Lothar,

On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 5:45 PM, Reith, Lothar <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hi Alia,
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> I fully support your approach. I am strongly in favor  of moving forward
> with one standards track encap.
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> May be it would be an approach to try and agree on a handful of criteria,
> such as extensibility, backwards compatibility with VXLAN and/or NVGRE,
> number of running code, ease of hardware implementation (evidenced by
> number of running hardware code), interoperability with VXLAN/NVGRE,
> Security, Cost in terms of protocol overhead, Cost in terms of scarce
> numbering resources, interoperability with legacy deployments in the field,
> support by deployed control planes, and yes: Simplicity (the opposite of
> complexity).
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Thanks for your feedback and joining in the conversation.

I've been trying to ask from the perspective of technical objects for a
reason that a particular approach CAN NOT solve the problem.
This ties back to how and why the IETF does consensus (see RFC 7282).

> Did I miss any important category?
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> One could agree on the categories, agree on a process to rank the 3
> candidate protocols – e.g. identify the best and the worst by the number
> and severity of objections in that category, the third is in the middle.
>

I suspect that a design team approach will be needed to work rapidly and
try for a fair evaluation of the problems with each one.


> The final rank would be average of the ranks per category. That one should
> be promoted to standards track.
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I'm a bit twitchy about using averages - (average of 6 foot tall and 2 foot
tall is 4 foot tall - but not helpful).

I'm happy to see discussion about how this decision can be made.

> One could consider flipping a coin to decide the rank in a category – but
> only in a contentious situation between 2 of the 3 candidates.
>

I would strongly prefer to avoid flipping a coin :-)

Regards,
Alia


> Lothar
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> *Von:* nvo3 [mailto:[email protected]] *Im Auftrag von *Alia Atlas
> *Gesendet:* Dienstag, 26. Juli 2016 22:05
> *An:* Joe Touch <[email protected]>
> *Cc:* Tom Herbert <[email protected]>; Michael Smith (michsmit) <
> [email protected]>; [email protected]; Matthew Bocci <[email protected]>;
> Paul Quinn <[email protected]>; Dino Farinacci <[email protected]>; Jesse
> Gross <[email protected]>; Larry Kreeger <[email protected]>
> *Betreff:* Re: [nvo3] Consensus call on encap proposals
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> On Tue, Jul 26, 2016 at 3:50 PM, Joe Touch <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 7/26/2016 12:42 PM, Alia Atlas wrote:
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> The question is:
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> (1) Should the WG move forward with one standards track encap?
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> I've heard a lot of concern that we just can't do it, that it's too late,
> etc.
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> I don't think it's ever "too late", but I also don't see consensus forming
> either.
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> It may be that many folks are recovering from IETF and not responding yet.
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> We can always flip a coin - if the solutions are technically equivalent
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> That defines "random", not "consensus".
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> It's not a preferred way - but it's a way of breaking a deadlock.
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> Of course, the WG would have to have consensus on that being the decision
> process.
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> Take a read through RFC 7282.  I keep praising it because it gives really
> good perspectives.
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> Joe
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