My point would be that introducing  additional complexity in an overlay should 
have a use case associate with it. It would not be something you would do 
gratuitously....

SO I'm looking for the draft to provide a use case for this vs. simply 
mentioning  subnetting without any context :)

Cheers
Dave

From: nvo3 [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Joe Touch
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2016 5:07 PM
To: David Allan I <[email protected]>; [email protected]; Bocci, Matthew 
(Nokia - GB) <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [nvo3] FW: Call for interest on NVO3 use case draft




On 8/12/2016 4:16 PM, David Allan I wrote:
4.2 Why I would subnet my overlay could use some explanation. I normally think 
of subnetting as a  convenient address summarization technique dependent on 
topology, and with an overlay I don't have a topology.

The topology of an overlay is determined by its tunnels, just as the topology 
of the underlying net is determined by its links.

A subnet in an overlay corresponds either to a single multipoint tunnel or to a 
set of tunnels that transparently acts as such - just as a subnet in the 
Internet base network corresponds to a shared access link or a set of links 
that transparently act as such (e.g., switched ethernet).

Joe
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