Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation

Short description: Proposed Internet standard protocol

Generic Network Virtualization Encapsulation (Geneve) is a network encapsulation protocol created by the IETF in order to unify the efforts made by other initiatives like VXLAN and NVGRE, You are invited to add it here. with the intent to eliminate the wild growth of encapsulation protocols. You are invited to add it here.

Open vSwitch is an example of a software-based virtual network switch that supports Geneve overlay networks. It is also supported by AWS Gateway Load Balancers.