Network Working Group                                   L. Dunbar
Internet Draft                                           Futurewei
Intended status: Informational                         B. Sarikaya
Expires: December 17, 2020                     Denpel Informatique
                                                   B.Khasnabish
                                                    Independent
                                                     T. Herbert
                                                          Intel
                                                     S. Dikshit
                                                      Aruba-HPE
                                                     June 17, 2020



     Virtual Machine Mobility Solutions for L2 and L3 Overlay
                  Networks draft-ietf-nvo3-vmm-16

Abstract

   This document describes virtual machine (VM) mobility
   solutions commonly used in data centers built with an overlay
   network. This document is intended for describing the
   solutions and the impact of moving VMs, or applications, from
   one rack to another connected by the overlay network.

   For layer 2, it is based on using an NVA (Network
   Virtualization Authority) to NVE (Network Virtualization
   Edge) protocol to update ARP (Address Resolution Protocol)
   tables or neighbor cache entries after a VM moves from an old
   NVE to a new NVE.  For Layer 3, it is based on address and
   connection migration after the move.

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Table of Contents


   1. Introduction................................................ 3
   2. Conventions used in this document........................... 4
   3. Requirements................................................ 5


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   4. Overview of the VM Mobility Solutions....................... 6
      4.1. Inter-VN and External Communication.................... 6
      4.2. VM Migration in a Layer 2 Network...................... 7
      4.3. VM Migration in Layer-3 Network........................ 8
      4.4. Address and Connection Management in VM Migration...... 9
   5. Handling Packets in Flight................................. 10
   6. Moving Local State of VM................................... 11
   7. Handling of Hot, Warm and Cold VM Mobility................. 12
   8. Other Options.............................................. 13
   9. VM Lifecycle Management.................................... 13
   10. Security Considerations................................... 14
   11. IANA Considerations....................................... 15
   12. Acknowledgments........................................... 15
   13. References................................................ 15
      13.1. Normative References................................. 15
      13.2. Informative References............................... 16

1. Introduction
     This document describes the overlay-based data center
     network solutions in support of multitenancy and VM
     mobility. Being able to move VMs dynamically, from one
     server to another, makes it possible for dynamic load
     balancing or work distribution. Therefore, dynamic VM
     Mobility is highly desirable for large scale multi-tenant
     DCs.
     This document is strictly within the DCVPN, as defined by
     the NVO3 Framework [RFC7365]. The intent is to describe
     Layer 2 and Layer 3 Network behavior when VMs are moved
     from one NVE to another. This document assumes that the
     VM's move is initiated by the VM management system, i.e.
     planed move. How and when to move VMs is out of the scope
     of this document. RFC7666 already has the description of
     the MIB for VMs controlled by Hypervisor. The impact of VM
     mobility on higher layer protocols and applications is
     outside its scope.
     Many large DCs (Data Centers), especially Cloud DCs, host
     tasks (or workloads) for multiple tenants. A tenant can be
     an organization or a department of an organization. There
     are communications among tasks belonging to one tenant and
     communications among tasks belonging to different tenants
     or with external entities.
     Server Virtualization, which is being used in almost all of
     today's data centers, enables many VMs to run on a single
     physical computer or server sharing the


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     processor/memory/storage.  Network connectivity among VMs
     is provided by the network virtualization edge (NVE)
     [RFC8014].  It is highly desirable [RFC7364] to allow VMs
     to be moved dynamically (live, hot, or cold move) from one
     server to another for dynamic load balancing or optimized
     work distribution.
     There are many challenges and requirements related to VM
     mobility in large data centers, including dynamic
     attachment and detachment of VMs to/from Virtual Network
     Edges (VNEs).  In addition, retaining IP addresses after a
     move is a key requirement [RFC7364].  Such a requirement is
     needed in order to maintain existing transport layer
     connections.
     In traditional Layer-3 based networks, retaining IP
     addresses after a move is generally not recommended because
     frequent moves will cause fragmented IP addresses, which
     introduces complexity in IP address management.
     In view of the many VM mobility schemes that exist today,
     there is a desire to document comprehensive VM mobility
     solutions that cover both IPv4 and IPv6. The large Data
     Center networks can be organized as one large Layer-2
     network geographically distributed in several
     buildings/cities or Layer-3 networks with large number of
     host routes that cannot be aggregated as the result of
     frequent moves from one location to another without
     changing their IP addresses.  The connectivity between
     Layer 2 boundaries can be achieved by the NVE functioning
     as a Layer 3 gateway router across bridging domains.


2. Conventions used in this document


      This document uses the terminology defined in [RFC7364].
      In addition, we make the following definitions:

      VM:    Virtual Machine

      Task:    A task is a program instantiated or running on a
               VM or a container.  Tasks running in VMs or
               containers can be migrated from one server to



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               another.  We use task, workload and VM
               interchangeably in this document.

      Hot VM Mobility: A given VM could be moved from one server
               to another in a running state without terminating
               the VM.

     Warm VM Mobility:  In case of warm VM mobility, the VM
               states are mirrored to the secondary server (or
               domain) at predefined regular intervals.  This
               reduces the overheads and complexity, but this
               may also lead to a situation when both servers
               may not contain the exact same data (state
               information)

      Cold VM Mobility:  A given VM could be moved from one
               server to another in stopped or suspended state.

      Old NVE:  refers to the old NVE where packets were
               forwarded to before migration.

      New NVE: refers to the new NVE after migration.

      Packets in flight: refers to the packets received by the
               old NVE sent by the correspondents that have old
               ARP or neighbor cache entry before VM or task
               migration.

      Users of VMs in diskless systems or systems not using
               configuration files are called end user clients.

      Cloud DC:  Third party data centers that host
               applications, tasks or workloads owned by
               different organizations or tenants.


3. Requirements

   This section states requirements on data center network VM
   mobility.




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      - Data center network should support both IPv4 and IPv6 VM
        mobility.
      - VM mobility should not require changing an VM's IP
        address(es) after the move.
      -  "Hot Migration" requires the transport service continuity
        across the move, while in "Cold Migration" the transport
        service is restarted, i.e. the task is stopped on the old
        NVE, is moved to the new NVE and then restarted. Not all DCs
        support "Hot Migration. DCs that only support Cold Migration
        should make their customers aware of the potential service
        interruption during a Cold Migration.
      - VM mobility solutions/procedures should minimize triangular
        routing except for handling packets in flight.
      - VM mobility solutions/procedures should not need to use
        tunneling except for handling packets in flight.

4. Overview of the VM Mobility Solutions

4.1. Inter-VN and External Communication

     Inter VN (Virtual Network) communication refers to
     communication among tenants (or hosts) belonging to
     different VNs. Those tenants can be attached to the NVEs
     co-located in the same Data Center or in different Data
     centers. When a VM communicates with an external entity,
     the VM is effectively communicating with a peer in a
     different network or a globally reachable host.

     This document assumes that the inter-VNs communication and
     the communication with external entities are via NVO3
     Gateway functionality as described in Section 5.3 of RFC
     8014 [RFC8014]. NVO3 Gateways relay traffic onto and off of
     a virtual network, enabling communication both across
     different VNs and with external entities.

     NVO3 Gateway functionality enforces appropriate policies to
     control communication among VNs and with external entities
     (e.g., hosts).

     Moving a VM to a new NVE may move the VM away from the NVO3
     Gateway(s) used by the VM's traffic, e.g., some traffic may
     be better handled by an NVO3 Gateway that is closer to the
     new NVE than the NVO3 Gateway that was used before the VM
     move.  If NVO3 Gateway changes are not possible for some
     reason, then the VM's traffic can continue to use the prior



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     NVO3 Gateway(s), which may have some drawbacks, e.g.,
     longer network paths.



4.2. VM Migration in a Layer 2 Network

     In a Layer-2 based approach, a VM moving to another NVE
     does not change its IP address. But this VM is now under a
     new NVE, previously communicating NVEs may continue sending
     their packets to the old NVE.  Therefore, the previously
     communicating NVEs need to promptly update their Address
     Resolution Protocol (ARP) caches of IPv4 [RFC826] or
     neighbor caches of IPv6 [RFC4861]. If the VM being moved
     has communication with external entities, the NVO3 gateway
     needs to be notified of the new NVE where the VM is moved
     to.

     In IPv4, the VM immediately after the move should send a
     gratuitous ARP request message containing its IPv4 and
     Layer 2 MAC address in its new NVE.  Upon receiving this
     message, the new NVE can update its ARP cache. The new NVE
     should send a notification of the newly attached VM to the
     central directory [RFC7067] embedded in the NVA to update
     the mapping of the IPv4 address & MAC address of the moving
     VM along with the new NVE address.  An NVE-to-NVA protocol
     is used for this purpose [RFC8014]. The old NVE, upon a VM
     is moved away, should send an ARP scan to all its attached
     VMs to refresh its ARP Cache.

     Reverse ARP (RARP) which enables the host to discover its
     IPv4 address when it boots from a local server [RFC903], is
     not used by VMs if the VM already knows its IPv4 address
     (most common scenario). Next, we describe a case where RARP
     is used.

     There are some vendor deployments (diskless systems or
     systems without configuration files) wherein the VM's user,
     i.e. end-user client askes for the same MAC address upon
     migration.  This can be achieved by the clients sending
     RARP request message which carries the MAC address looking
     for an IP address allocation.  The server, in this case the
     new NVE needs to communicate with NVA, just like in the
     gratuitous ARP case to ensure that the same IPv4 address is
     assigned to the VM.  NVA uses the MAC address as the key in
     the search of ARP cache to find the IP address and informs



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     this to the new NVE which in turn sends RARP reply message.
     This completes IP address assignment to the migrating VM.

     Other NVEs that have attached VMs or the NVO3 Gateway that
     have external entities communicating with this VM may still
     have the old ARP entry. To avoid old ARP entries being used
     by other NVEs, the old NVE upon discovering a VM is
     detached should send a notification to all other NVEs and
     its NVO3 Gateway to time out the ARP cache for the VM
     [RFC8171]. When an NVE (including the old NVE) receives
     packet or ARP request destined towards a VM (its MAC or IP
     address) that is not in the NVE's ARP cache, the NVE should
     send query to NVA's Directory Service to get the associated
     NVE address for the VM. This is how the old NVE tunneling
     these in-flight packets to the new NVE to avoid packets
     loss.

     When VM address is IPv6, the operation is similar:

     In IPv6, after the move, the VM immediately sends an
     unsolicited neighbor advertisement message containing its
     IPv6 address and Layer-2 MAC address to its new NVE. This
     message is sent to the IPv6 Solicited Node Multicast
     Address corresponding to the target address which is the
     VM's IPv6 address. The NVE receiving this message should
     send request to update VM's neighbor cache entry in the
     central directory of the NVA.  The NVA's neighbor cache
     entry should include IPv6 address of the VM, MAC address of
     the VM and the NVE IPv6 address.  An NVE-to-NVA protocol is
     used for this purpose [RFC8014].

     To avoid other NVEs communicating with this VM using the
     old neighbor cache entry, the old NVE upon discovering a VM
     being moved or VM management system which initiates the VM
     move should send a notification to all NVEs to timeout the
     ND cache for the VM being moved.  When a ND cache entry for
     those VMs times out, their corresponding NVEs should send
     query to the NVA for an update.



4.3. VM Migration in Layer-3 Network

     Traditional Layer-3 based data center networks usually have
     all hosts (tasks) within one subnet attached to one NVE. By
     this design, the NVE becomes the default route for all
     hosts (tasks) within the subnet. But this design requires


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     IP address of a host (task) to change after the move to
     comply with the prefixes of the IP address under the new
     NVE.

     A VM migration in Layer 3 Network solution is to allow IP
     addresses staying the same after moving to different
     locations. The Identifier Locator Addressing or ILA
     [Herbert-ILA] is one of such solutions.

     Because broadcasting is not available in Layer-3 based
     networks, multicast of neighbor solicitations in IPv6 and
     ARP for IPv4 would need to be emulated. Scalability of the
     multicast (such as IPv6 ND and IPv4 ARP) can become
     problematic because the hosts belonging to one subnet (or
     one VLAN) can span across many NVEs. Sending broadcast
     traffic to all NVEs can cause unnecessary traffic in the
     DCN if the hosts belonging to one subnet are only attached
     to a very small number of NVEs. It is preferable to have a
     directory [RFC7067] or NVA to manage the updates to an NVE
     of the potential other NVEs a specific subnet may be
     attached and get periodic reports from an NVE of all the
     subnets being attached/detached, as described by RFC8171.

     Hot VM Migration in Layer 3 involves coordination among
     many entities, such as VM management system and NVA. Cold
     task migration, which is a common practice in many data
     centers, involves the following steps:

     - Stop running the task.
     - Package the runtime state of the job.
     - Send the runtime state of the task to the new NVE where
        the task is to run.
     - Instantiate the task's state on the new machine.
     - Start the tasks for the task continuing from the point
        at which it was stopped.


     RFC7666 has the more detailed description of the State
     Machine of VMs controlled by Hypervisor

4.4. Address and Connection Management in VM Migration

     Since the VM attached to the new NVE needs to be assigned
     with the same address as VM attached to the old NVE, extra
     processing or configuration is needed, such as:



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     - Configure IPv4/v6 address on the target VM/NVE.
     - Suspend use of the address on the old NVE.  This
        includes the old NVE sending query to NVA upon receiving
        packets destined towards the VM being moved away. If
        there is no response from NVA for the new NVE for the
        VM, the old NVE can only drop the packets. Referring to
        the VM State Machine described in RFC7666.
     - Trigger NVA to push the new NVE-VM mapping to other NVEs
        which have the attached VMs communicating with the VM
        being moved.

     Connection management for the applications running on the
     VM being moved involves reestablishing existing TCP
     connections in the new place.

     The simplest course of action is to drop all TCP
     connections to the applications running on the VM during a
     migration.  If the migrations are relatively rare events in
     a data center, impact is relatively small when TCP
     connections are automatically closed in the network stack
     during a migration event.  If the applications running are
     known to handle this gracefully (i.e. reopen dropped
     connections) then this approach may be viable.

     More involved approach to connection migration entails a
     proxy to the application (or the application itself) to
     pause the connection, package connection state and send to
     target, instantiate connection state in the peer stack, and
     restarting the connection.  From the time the connection is
     paused to the time it is running again in the new stack,
     packets received for the connection could be silently
     dropped.  For some period of time, the old stack will need
     to keep a record of the migrated connection.  If it
     receives a packet, it can either silently drop the packet
     or forward it to the new location, as described in Section
     5.

5. Handling Packets in Flight

     The old NVE may receive packets from the VM's ongoing
     communications. These packets should not be lost; they
     should be sent to the new NVE to be delivered to the VM.
     The steps involved in handling packets in flight are as
     follows:



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     Preparation Step:  It takes some time, possibly a few
     seconds for a VM to move from its old NVE to a new NVE.
     During this period, a tunnel needs to be established so
     that the old NVE can forward packets to the new NVE. The
     old NVE gets the new NVE address from its NVA assuming that
     the NVA gets the notification when a VM is moved from one
     NVE to another. It is out of the scope of this document on
     which entity manages the VM move and how NVA gets notified
     of the move. The old NVE can store the new NVE address for
     the VM with a timer. When the timer expired, the entry for
     the new NVE for the VM can be deleted.

     Tunnel Establishment - IPv6:  Inflight packets are tunneled
     to the new NVE using the encapsulation protocol such as
     VXLAN in IPv6.

     Tunnel Establishment - IPv4:  Inflight packets are tunneled
     to the new NVE using the encapsulation protocol such as
     VXLAN in IPv4.

     Tunneling Packets - IPv6:  IPv6 packets received for the
     migrating VM are encapsulated in an IPv6 header at the old
     NVE.  The new NVE decapsulates the packet and sends IPv6
     packet to the migrating VM.

     Tunneling Packets - IPv4:  IPv4 packets received for the
     migrating VM are encapsulated in an IPv4 header at the old
     NVE. The new NVE decapsulates the packet and sends IPv4
     packet to the migrating VM.

     Stop Tunneling Packets:  When the Timer for storing the new
     NVE address for the VM expires. The Timer should be long
     enough for all other NVEs that need to communicate with the
     VM to get their NVE-VM cache entries updated.

6. Moving Local State of VM
     In addition to the VM mobility related signaling (VM
     Mobility Registration Request/Reply), the VM state needs to
     be transferred to the new NVE.  The state includes its
     memory and file system if the VM cannot access the memory
     and the file system after moving to the new NVE.

     The mechanism of transferring VM States and file system is
     out of the scope of this document. Referring to RFC7666 for
     detailed information.



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7. Handling of Hot, Warm and Cold VM Mobility
     Both Cold and Warm VM mobility (or migration) refer to the
     complete shutdown of the VM at the old NVE before
     restarting the VM at the new NVE. Therefore, all transport
     services to the VM need to be restarted.

     In this document, all VM mobility is initiated by VM
     Management System. In case of Cold VM mobility, the
     exchange of states between the old NVE and the new NVE
     occurs after the VM attached to the old NVE is completely
     shut down. There is a time delay before the new VM is
     launched. The cold mobility option can be used for non-
     mission-critical applications and services that can
     tolerate interruptions of TCP connections.

     For Hot VM Mobility, a VM moving to a new NVE does not
     change its IP address and the service running on the VM is
     not interrupted. The VM needs to send a gratuitous Address
     Resolution message or unsolicited Neighbor Advertisement
     message upstream after each move.

     In case of Warm VM mobility, the functional components of
     the new NVE receive the running status of the VM at
     frequent intervals. Consequently, it takes less time to
     launch the VM under the new NVE. Other NVEs that
     communicate with the VM can be notified promptly about the
     VM migration. The duration of the time interval determines
     the effectiveness (or benefit) of Warm VM mobility.  The
     larger the time duration, the less effective the Warm VM
     mobility becomes.

     In case of Cold VM mobility, the VM on the old NVE is
     completely shut down and the VM is launched on the new NVE.
     To minimize the chance of the previously communicating NVEs
     sending packets to the old NVE, the NVA should push the
     updated ARP/neighbor cache entry to all previously
     communicating NVEs when the VM is started on the new NVE.
     Alternatively, all NVEs can periodically pull the updated
     ARP/neighbor cache entry from the NVA to shorten the time
     span that packets are sent to the old NVE.

     Upon starting at the new NVE, the VM should send an ARP or
     Neighbor Discovery message.





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8. Other Options
     Hot, Warm and Cold mobility are planned activities which
     are managed by VM management system.

     For unexpected events, such as overloads and failure, a VM
     might need to move to a new NVE without any service
     interruption, and this is called Hot VM Failover in this
     document. In such case, there are redundant primary and
     secondary VMs whose states are continuously synchronized by
     using methods that are outside the scope of this draft. If
     the VM in the primary NVE fails, there is no need to
     actively move the VM to the secondary NVE because the VM in
     the secondary NVE can immediately pick up and continue
     processing the applications/services.

     The Hot VM Failover is transparent to the peers that
     communicate with this VM. This can be achieved via
     distributed load balancing when both active VM and standby
     VM share the same TCP port and same IP address. In the
     absence of a failure, the new VM can pick up providing
     service while the sender (peer) continues to receive Ack
     from the old VM. If the situation (loading condition of the
     primary responding VM) changes the secondary responding VM
     may start providing service to the sender (peers).  When a
     failure occurs, the sender (peer) may have to retry the
     request, so this structure is limited to requests that can
     be safely retried.

     If the load balancing functionality is not used, the Hot VM
     Failover can be made transparent to the sender (peers)
     without relying on request retry and by using the
     techniques that are described in section 4. This does not
     depend on the primary VM or its associated NVE doing
     anything after the failure.  This restriction is necessary
     because a failure that affects the primary VM may also
     cause its associated NVE to fail. For example, a physical
     server failure can cause the VM and its NVE to fail.

     The Hot VM Failover option is the costliest mechanism, and
     hence this option is utilized only for mission-critical
     applications and services.

9. VM Lifecycle Management
     The VM lifecycle management is a complicated task, which is
     beyond the scope of this document. Not only it involves


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     monitoring server utilization, balancing the distribution
     of workload, etc., but also needs to support   seamless
     migration of VM from one server to another.

10. Security Considerations
     Security threats for the data and control plane for overlay
     networks are discussed in [RFC8014].  ARP (IPv4) and ND
     (IPv6) are not secure, especially if they can be sent
     gratuitously across tenant boundaries in a multi-tenant
     environment.

     In overlay data center networks, ARP and ND messages can be
     used to mount address spoofing attacks from untrusted
     VMs and/or other untrusted sources. Examples of untrusted
     VMs are the VMs instantiated with the third-party
     applications that are not written by the tenant of the VMs.
     Those untrusted VMs can send false ARP (IPv4) and ND (IPv6)
     messages, causing significant overloads in NVEs, NVO3
     Gateways, and NVAs. The attacker can intercept, modify, or
     even stop data in-transit ARP/ND messages intended for
     other VNs and initiate DDOS attacks to other VMs attached
     to the same NVE. A simple black-hole attacks can be mounted
     by sending a false ARP/ND message to indicate that the
     victim's IP address has moved to the attacker's VM.  That
     technique can also be used to mount man-in-the-middle
     attacks. Additional effort is required to ensure that the
     intercepted traffic can be eventually delivered to the
     impacted VMs.

     The locator-identifier mechanism given as an example (ILA)
     doesn't include secure binding. It does not discuss how to
     securely bind the new locator to the identifier.

     Because of those threats, VM management system needs to
     apply stronger security mechanisms when adding a VM to an
     NVE. Some tenants may have requirements that prohibit their
     VMs to be co-attached to the NVEs with other tenants. Some
     Data Centers deploy additional functionality in their NVO3
     Gateways to mitigate the ARP/ND threats. These may include
     periodically sending each Gateway's ARP/ND cache contents
     to the NVA or other central control system. The objective
     is to identify the ARP/ND cache entries that are not
     consistent with the locations of VMs and their IP addresses
     indicated by the VM Management System.




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11. IANA Considerations

       This document makes no request to IANA.

12. Acknowledgments

   The authors are grateful to Bob Briscoe, David Black, Dave R.
   Worley, Qiang Zu, Andrew Malis for helpful comments.



13. References


13.1. Normative References

   [RFC826]  Plummer, D., "An Ethernet Address Resolution
             Protocol: Or Converting Network Protocol Addresses
             to 48.bit Ethernet Address for Transmission on
             Ethernet Hardware", RFC826, November 1982.

    [RFC903]  Finlayson, R., Mann, T., Mogul, J., and M.
             Theimer, "A Reverse Address Resolution Protocol",
             STD 38, RFC 903.

    [RFC4861]  Narten, T., Nordmark, E., Simpson, W., and H.
             Soliman, "Neighbor Discovery for IP version 6
             (IPv6)", RFC 4861, DOI 10.17487/RFC4861, September
             2007,  <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc4861>.

    [RFC7067] L. Dunbar, D. Eastlake, R. Perlman, I. Gashinsky,
             "directory Assistance Problem and High Level Design
             Proposal", RFC7067, Nov. 2013

   [RFC7364]  Narten, T., Ed., Gray, E., Ed., Black, D., Fang,
             L.,  Kreeger, L., and M. Napierala, "Problem
             Statement: Overlays for Network Virtualization",
             RFC 7364,  DOI 10.17487/RFC7364, October 2014,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7364>.





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   [RFC7365] Lesserre, M, et al, "Framework for Data Center (DC)
             Network Virtualization", RFC7365, Oct 2014.

    [RFC8014]  Black, D., Hudson, J., Kreeger, L., Lasserre, M.,
             and T.   Narten, "An Architecture for Data-Center
             Network Virtualization over Layer 3 (NVO3)", RFC
             8014,  DOI 10.17487/RFC8014, December 2016,
             <https://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc8014>.

   [RFC8171] D. Eastlake, L. Dunbar, R. Perlman, Y. Li, "Edge
             Directory Assistance Mechanisms", RFC 8171, June
             2017
13.2. Informative References

    [Herbert-ILA] Herbert, T. and P. Lapukhov, "Identifier-
             locator addressing for IPv6", draft-herbert-
             intarea-ila-01 (work in progress), September 2018.





























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Authors' Addresses


   Linda Dunbar
   Futurewei
   Email: ldunbar@futurewei.com

   Behcet Sarikaya
   Denpel Informatique
   Email: sarikaya@ieee.org

   Bhumip Khasnabish
   Info.: https://about.me/bhumip
   Email: vumip1@gmail.com


   Tom Herbert
   Intel
   Email: tom@herbertland.com


   Saumya Dikshit
   Aruba-HPE
   Bangalore, India
   Email: saumya.dikshit@hpe.com





















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