802.1Qcy – VDP Extension to Support NVO3

The full title of this PAR is “Standard for Local and Metropolitan Area Networks: Bridges and Bridged Networks: Amendment: Virtual Station Interface (VSI) Discovery and Configuration Protocol (VDP) Extension to Support Network Virtualization Overlays Over Layer 3 (NVO3)”.

This standard specifies extensions to VDP to support using the protocol between an end station and a device doing encapsulation/decapsulation for NVO3. The extensions will include adding format types that include Internet Protocol (IP) addresses and enhancing indication of migration events.

Bridges, as specified by this standard, allow the compatible interconnection of information technology equipment attached to separate individual LANs.

This amendment extends VDP protocol to fulfill the requirements for the control plane protocol between the virtualized end device (end station) and the external network virtualization edge (e.g. bridge or router) in an NVO3 network.

This project was originally labeled P802.1Qcn, but was renamed to P802.1Qcy to avoid ambiguity with the protocol QCN as defined in Std IEEE 802.1Q-2010

Current Status

Draft P802.1Qcy, Draft 1.2
Status Working Group ballot passed
(No outstanding Disapproves or comments)
Prior drafts and dispositions of comments
PAR PAR approved September 3rd, 2015.
CSD CSD
Editor Paul Bottorff, Yizhou Li

Presentations and contributions

15th March 2017 Terminology 802.1Qcn
cn-bottorff-terminology-1116-v01.pdf
12th March 2017 VDP extension for SR-IOV
cn-huang-vdp-for-sr-iov-0317-v00.pptx
26th July 2016 Editor’s report on 802.1Qcn 0.1
cn-yizhou-editors-report-on-Qcn-0716-v01.pdf 

The above list includes only the latest version of updated documents and omits those superseded by subsequent discussion or inclusion in the current draft (see filenames beginning “cn-” or “cy-” in the 2015, 20162017 and 2018 802.1 public directories for a complete list). The dates listed are the website file dates and often differ from creation dates in the documents.

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