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.