Subject: [bess] Protocol Action: 'A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution using EVPN' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-bess-evpn-overlay-11.txt)

From: The IESG <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:14:00 -0800

The IESG has approved the following document:
- 'A Network Virtualization Overlay Solution using EVPN'
  (draft-ietf-bess-evpn-overlay-11.txt) as Proposed Standard

This document is the product of the BGP Enabled ServiceS Working Group.

The IESG contact persons are Alvaro Retana, Alia Atlas and Deborah Brungard.

A URL of this Internet Draft is:
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-bess-evpn-overlay/

Technical Summary

   This document specifies how Ethernet VPN (EVPN) can be used as a
   Network Virtualization Overlay (NVO) solution and explores the
   various tunnel encapsulation options over IP  and their impact on the
   EVPN control-plane and procedures. In particular, the following
   encapsulation options are analyzed: VXLAN, NVGRE, and MPLS over GRE.

   GENEVE is considered in a separate document (draft-boutros-bess-evpn-geneve).

Working Group Summary

   There was very large support for adopting this work.  So much so that the list
   of authors (6) reflects the people who made the most significant contributions,
   while others (10 more) are listed as Contributors.

Document Quality

  This specification is of very good technical quality and  are 
  known to have multiple interoperable specifications.

Personnel

  Thomas Morin is the Document Shepherd.
  Alvaro Retana is the Responsible Area Director.