Applicability Statement for Provider Provisioned CE-based Virtual Private Networks using IPsec
draft-declercq-l3vpn-ce-based-as-00

[Note]: '
Waiting on document update from Ananth

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Subject: More, Re: Fwd: Re: L3VPN IPsec and VR documents
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 12:12:47 -0400
From: Ross Callon
To: W. Mark Townsley
CC: paul.knight@nortelnetworks.com, narten@us.ibm.com, margaret@thingmagic.com,        rick@rhwilder.net, rbonica@juniper.net
References: <425D908C.5080002@cisco.com> <6204FDDE129D364D8040A98BCCB290EF151C6CFD@zbl6c004.corpeast.baynetworks.com> <6204FDDE129D364D8040A98BCCB290EF151C6CFD@zbl6c004.corpeast.baynetworks.com>

Looking through old email, I found a message from me dated
January 19th containing comments on the VR applicability
statement (as well as VR architecture), and a reply from
Ananth saying he was intending to update it. This missed
the comment in my email from last night regarding the first
paragraph from section 13.

I therefore have pinged Ananth asking for him to update the
AS, and included comments on the paragraph in section 13.

I think that the next step is to get an update on the VR AS
from Ananth, in addition to the update on the VR architecture
from Paul.

Thanks, Ross

At 11:44 PM 4/13/2005 -0400, Ross Callon wrote:
>At 05:35 PM 4/13/2005 -0400, W. Mark Townsley wrote:
>>...
>>>That is, I''m not sure if we are moving the A.S. along as an
>>>Informational RFC or not.  It''s a useful document, but I did not recall
>>>what the WG decided to do with it.  I know the main VR draft
>>>(draft-ietf-l3vpn-vpn-vr) is on track, but not sure about the A.S. plan.
>>
>>Well, I inherited it from Thomas'' plate, so I suspect that the WG decided
>>to advance it. Chairs, can you fill me in on the history a bit more, do
>>we still want to advance the AS doc?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>- Mark
>
>The current intention is to progress it. My recollection is that there was
>working group consensus on this although there was a lot of indifference.
>I think that there is some significant useful information in it. Looking
>it over
>again, most of it is in quite good shape (I only found a couple of places
>where it seems to need update -- although I should take another look
>tomorrow since it is a bit late to finish tonight).
>
>Unfortunately, there are a couple of places where it still needs to be updated
>and/or fixed. For example:
>
>         13. Scalability
>
>         PE-based PPVPNs have better scalability than CE-based PPVPNs, because
>         the total number of VPN tunnels that need to be managed are far
> fewer in the
>         service provider backbone, than between CEs.
>
>There are of course many people who would disagree with this. With CE-based
>VPNs, typically some "over IP" encapsulation is used (such as IPsec). There is
>therefore essentially no state in the core of the network. It is hard to
>scale better
>than this (although there are other issues, such as the network management
>effort, equipment cost, etc).
>
>Similarly, the beginning of the introduction says:
>
>         1. Introduction
>
>         The virtual router concept for L3 PPVPNs was first introduced in
>         [COREVPN]. This was generalized in [PPVPNVR]. A number of
>         auto- discovery mechanisms can be used with this approach to L3
>         PPVPNs, and [COREVPN] represents one such approach using IP
>         multicast.
>
>In fact, I heard about and worked on the virtual router concept before
>[COREVPN] was published. I still remember my first impression when
>I first saw a presentation on [COREVPN] -- I felt sorry for the presenter
>(who I won''t name) because the approach was so obviously flawed (in
>particular due to the way that it used IP Multicast). Thus I don''t think
>that the introduction to this approach should start off with [COREVPN]
>as the first thing to talk about.
>
>Nonetheless, in spite of a few nits such as this which I would personally
>recommend to update, the AS contains a significant amount of useful
>information (in my opinion).
>
>Ross
>

' added by Mark Townsley

State Change Notice email list have been change to rick@rhwilder.net, rcallon@juniper.net, rbonica@juniper.net, jeremy.de_clercq@alcatel.be, dave.mcdysan@wcom.com, cliff.wang@us.army.mil from rick@rhwilder.net, rcallon@juniper.net, ronald.p.bonica@mci.com, jeremy.de_clercq@alcatel.be, dave.mcdysan@wcom.com, cliff.wang@us.army.mil

[Note]: '2004-08-25: draft-ietf-l3vpn-ce-based-02.txt &
draft-declercq-l3vpn-ce-based-as-00.txt go together. Need to better
understand what wording/changes are needed to make clear that these
documents are not a protocol spec from which one can achieve
interoperability.
' added by Thomas Narten

Based on the request to publish this document as an "applicability statement," I have designated the "Intended Status" as "Informational RFC."  I have requested confirmation from Ross Callon.