On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 3:46 PM, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]> wrote:
> While I would have liked a solution that completely removed renumbering,
> LISP does not cope with all of the cases that cause renumbering.  It is hard
> to state the tradeoff clearly and concisely, although it is inherent in teh
> fact that LISP is site oriented.  (Yes, there are some interesting extension
> to mobility, but those are out of scope...)
>
> If there are operational issues that need to be consistent, those should be
> captured in the deployment document.  If they aren't, we need to fix that.
>  But there are limits.   I do not think we need to deal at this time with
> describing exactly what has to happen when a LISP site sells part of its
> network to another organization, that either is or is not using LISP.


Sure - I'm not focused on that specific case.  What I'm after is the assumption
that an ETR knows the correct locator-set and statuses for a sub-prefix that
has been delegated away...  The locator-status bits make sense when the ETRs
are all in the same IGP; if that isn't the case, additional explicit
work is needed.

What would be useful is capturing the assumptions on knowledge and use-cases.
I know the deployment doc is a start of that, but some of this seems
to me to belong
in the protocol docs.  What must an ETR know and with what dynamics to advertise
a prefix and what issues come up with holes and delegation?

Is it a deliberate decision that there is no way for an ETR to say for
a hole that it
doesn't know what do with it - which means that if an ITR hit that
entry, it would need
to query...

> Yours,
> Joel
>
> On 6/23/2011 2:59 PM, Alia Atlas wrote:
>>
>> Joel,
>>
>> Certainly I agree that the text in [LISP] addresses some of the basics
>> of handling overlapping
>> prefixes.  I had thought that one point of LISP was to avoid needing
>> to renumber; I believe that in
>> a similar case with IPv4 addresses today, it's not unusual to get the
>> smaller prefix announced.
>>
>> However, in response to more detailed questions, I keep hearing back
>> assumptions or things
>> that have been discussed on the list and are not captured in a draft.
>>
>> For a protocol like LISP, there are clearly many operational details
>> and assumptions to be agreed
>> upon and that need to be consistent.  Last time I looked at the
>> deployment draft, I didn't notice
>> them captured anywhere.
>>
>> Are there plans for such a draft?
>>
>> Alia
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Joel M. Halpern<[email protected]>
>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> The normal situation is that an EID block is delegated to an
>>> administrative
>>> authority (a company).  They use it.
>>> They may use the main block, and use some sub-blocks.  That produces
>>> "holes"
>>> which are overlapping prefixes.  The handling of that is described in the
>>> document.  The ETRs which are responsible for the covering EID prefix
>>> must
>>> know which blocks are allocated elsewhere.
>>> They have to identify those in the response.
>>>
>>> THe details are spelled out.
>>>
>>> The normal case would be that the division that was sold would be
>>> renumbered
>>> into its own or its new parents EID block.  After all, they are no longer
>>> part of the original site.  The overlapping prefix mechanisms allow for
>>> transition.
>>>
>>> The more extreme case is not permitted.  You can not have a LISP EID
>>> block,
>>> within which there is a hole which is used as IP addresses but not as
>>> LISP
>>> EIDs.  (The inner portion can be used as both, but it has to be an EID.)
>>>
>>> Yours,
>>> Joel
>>>
>>> On 6/22/2011 6:32 PM, Alia Atlas wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Dino,
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your responses - mine are in-line below.
>>>>
>>>> Alia
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 6:19 PM, Dino Farinacci<[email protected]>
>>>>  wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>>>>
>>>>> If the site has an EID-prefix of the /16 that is the one it Map-Replies
>>>>> for.
>>>>> We have rules in section 6.1.5 "EID-to-RLOC UDP Map-Reply Message" on
>>>>> how
>>>>> to
>>>>> send Map-Replies when there are overlapping EID-prefixes and there has
>>>>> been
>>>>> much discussion on this mailing list about it.
>>>>
>>>> I agree that there's been lots of discussion on the list.  Capturing
>>>> the decisions made
>>>> into the draft would be good practice, IMHO, and ensure it has been
>>>> resolved.
>>>>
>>>> Can an ETR have an prefix which has a hole in it?  What happens if the
>>>> ETR does not
>>>> know the correct RLOCs to use for that hole (since it isn't owned)?
>>>>
>>>> I'm thinking of a case where initially there is a LISP site with a
>>>> /16.  Then, part of that
>>>> company is sold along with the /24 that is used in that division.
>>>> Now, can the original
>>>> site advertise the /16 with a hole?  How would it do that?
>>>>
>>>> The problem here is that the ETR does NOT KNOW the correct locator-set
>>>> for the /24 hole
>>>> that has been sold off.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
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