Tom, 

Last I remember, we gave one “generic” and an access agnostic protocol in
the form MIPv6/PMIPv6, they never got it and never cared.


But, if you can sell it to 3GPP, this new control-plane that goes into
user-plane, I am with you.  :-)


Sri




On 2/1/18, 4:57 PM, "Tom Herbert" <t...@quantonium.net> wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 4:38 PM, Sri Gundavelli (sgundave)
><sgund...@cisco.com> wrote:
>>> One thing to add. LISP has a more mature control-plane mapping system.
>>>ILA has a recent proposal for its control-plane.
>>
>> Mobility architectures started with a unified CP/UP approach, then the
>> industry thought its a great idea to move the Control-plane out, and
>> reduce the state in the User-plane, and eliminate tunnels. Now, we want
>>to
>> eliminate the tunnels, but we need a new control protocol to manage the
>> binding tables, and manage the complex cache states. Wondering, what¹s
>> wrong with this picture?  What de we name this new CUPS architecture?
>>
>Sri,
>
>Bear in mind that "industry" has different meanings depending on the
>context. For ILA, and probably for LISP, the intent is to build a
>generic protocol that can be used across variety of use cases in the
>networking industry which hasn't uniformly adopted CUPS. It's pretty
>obvious that we'd want to leverage a single data plane control plane
>for these (isn't that the point of generic protocols :-) ). The CUPS
>actually architecture helps a lot here by creating a clean well
>abstracted interface that should make it straightforward to adapt an
>ILA control plane. I think our architecture where we define ILA as an
>NF reflects that.
>
>Tom
>
>>
>> Sri
>>
>>
>> (with no chair hat)
>>
>>

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