Keyur,

Thanks very much for your review. Please refer to the comment resolutions below 
and let us know if there are any further comments.

From: BESS <bess-boun...@ietf.org<mailto:bess-boun...@ietf.org>> on behalf of 
Keyur Patel <ke...@arrcus.com<mailto:ke...@arrcus.com>>
Date: Monday, September 5, 2016 at 3:34 PM
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Subject: [bess] RTG Dir QA review: draft-ietf-bess-evpn-overlay-04.txt


Hello,

I have been selected as the Routing Directorate QA reviewer for 
draft-ietf-bess-evpn-overlay-04.txt.


The Routing Directorate QA reviews are intended to be a support to improve the 
quality of RTG Area documents as they pass through the IETF process. This is 
the QA review at the time of the WG document adoption poll.


Summary:


This document describes how Ethernet VPN (EVPN) [RFC7432] 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.



The document is well written, easy to read and follow. Some minor comments are 
listed below:


Comments:


1) Introduction section suggests xmpp based approach as an alternative to the 
BGP as a control plane. It is unclear how the draft sections 8-10 and the 
security section 12 relate to the alternative solution. My suggestion would be 
to remove the reference if possible considering the draft is specific to BGP as 
a control plane.

Agreed. I will remove it.


2) Section 5.1.2.1 defines Autoderivation RT which suggests the use of 2 byte 
AS number. Do we need to consider 4 byte AS number as well? [??]

No, Auto-derivation of RT will not be supported for 4-byte AS.


3) Section 6: Minor Nit. Consider replacing "statically" with "locally".

Done.


4) Section 7.1: Talks about using RD value of 0. RD as a type:value field. Type 
0 RD requires the usage of 2 byte AS number (private values are strongly 
discouraged) which needs to be 0 for RD value to be 0. AS 0 according to IANA 
is reserved. Seems to be like usage of AS 0 is prohibited. Would a reserve RD 
value be more appropriate?

Since the recommendation is to use a unique RD value per RFC7432, the text 
corresponding to RD value of 0 is removed.


5) section 8.3.1 describes the draft constrain wrt mpls over gre versus 
vxlan/nvgre. Perhaps it would be great to highlight the constrain upfront in 
the introduction section?

OK. We highlighted this constrain upfront in section 8.


6) Do you need to add text to describe ARP/ND suppression in presence of 
default route?

That is covered in more depth in some other draft.

Regards,
Ali


Best Regards,

Keyur
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