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Nits: WG Review: Network Virtualization Overlays (nvo3) - 23-Apr-2012 updates

2012-04-24 14:27:02
Nits. Comments of substance to follow in separate email.

Adrian

Support for multi-tenancy has become a core requirement of data centers
(DCs), especially in the context of data centers supporting virtualized
hosts known as virtual machines (VMs). Two key requirements needed
to support multi-tenancy are traffic isolation, so that a tenant's
traffic is not visible to any other tenant, and address independence,
so that one tenant's addressing does not collide with other tenants

s/tenants/tenant's/

addressing schemes or with addresses used within the data center itself.

Suggest using bullets in above as the nested sub-clauses are really confusing.

Another key requirement is to support the placement and migration of
VMs anywhere within the data center, without being limited by DC
network constraints such as the IP subnet boundaries of the
underlying DC network.

So that is really three key requirements.
("Can I have two fish suppers and another one?")

An NVO3 solution (known here as a Data Center Virtual Private
Network (DCVPN)) is a VPN that is viable across a scaling range of
a few thousand VMs to several million VMs running on greater
than 100K physical servers. 

Mixing "thousand", "million", and "K" is a bit odd. Suggest s/100K/one hundred
thousand/

[snip]

Milestones:

Dec 2012 Problem Statement submitted for IESG review
Dec 2012 Framework document submitted for IESG review
Dec 2012 Data plane requirements submitted for IESG review
Dec 2012 Operational Requirements submitted for IESG review
Mar 2012 Control plane requirements submitted for IESG review
Mar 2012 Gap Analysis submitted for IESG review
Apr 2012 Recharter or close Working Group

I think someone else pointed out "2013"


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