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IETF conflict review for draft-nachum-sarp
conflict-review-nachum-sarp-00

The information below is for an old version of the document.
Document Proposed conflict review draft-nachum-sarp-11 ISE stream Snapshot
Last updated 2015-03-12
State Approved No Problem - point raised
IESG Responsible AD Adrian Farrel
Send notices to "Nevil Brownlee" <rfc-ise@rfc-editor.org>, draft-nachum-sarp@ietf.org
conflict-review-nachum-sarp-00
The IESG has concluded that this work is related to IETF work done 
in the NVO3 and PALS working groups, but this relationship does
not prevent publishing.

This work, like RFC 7342, has its origins in the ARMD working
group. That working group closed down, having produced just one
RFC, for lack of consensus on the need for or direction of any
solutions work.  Since the IETF has no active work in this area, it
cannot be claimed that this draft conflicts with any IETF efforts.
Furthermore, the IETF has published no work on solutions for
scaling ARP.
 
However, there are existing techniques using IETF protocols that
address the problem that this document seeks to solve and that do
not require this approach. Indeed, an existing deployed solution
places each data center in a separate L2 domain and connects them
with IP.

This, in itself, does not predicate against an experiment with
SARP, but the IESG needs to give clear guidance that other
solutions from within the IETF stable already exist. Therefore, the
IESG requests the ISE to include the following IESG note in this
document if it is published as an RFC.

   The IESG believes that the problems described in RFC 6820 can
   already be addressed through the simple combination of existing
   standardized or other published techniques including Layer 2 VPN
   (RFC 4664), proxy ARP (RFC 925), proxy Neighbor Discovery (RFC
   4389), and ARP mediation for IP interworking of Layer 2 VPNs (RFC
   6575).