1.) The VXLAN Draft was not submitted with the intended status “proposed standard”, it was submitted as “experimental”.

2.) There is no working group, AD assigned, or Charter for VXLAN.

3.) Both SPB & TRILL offer support for 2^24 VLANs to break the 4096 limit.

4.) The current 00 draft expires Feb 26th 2012

5.) When considering such things also consider NVGRE and read up on what’s happening in L2VPN and L3VPN.

6.) http://www.ietf.org is your friend.

That is not to say they VXLAN won’t get a Charter, and AD and all it needs to grown into a big strong working group with a intended status of proposed standard. It might.

However to say it’s a proposed standard when there is no charter and no working group is a wee bit ahead of the cart.

oh! and these are NOT pokes at the above post. The above post is quite good. This is just information to expand on what is above for those who are curious.