As I recall, all of the details to pass Instance-ID weren't there for the ALT mapping database. I'd have to review my earlier comments, but I also found this confusing and considered the idea of the Instance-IDs as one of those concepts that wasn't sufficiently developed in the spec.
Alia On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote: >> By the way, it is interesting that Ari thought the EIDs would come out of >> 10/8 space. That is obviously wrong, but maybe this misunderstanding gives >> us a datapoint on the issue that I raised earlier about using the 10/8 >> addresses in examples. > > Ah, but they could. That is the point. Since they are not injected in the > core, an EID-prefix in 10/8 space can be made unique to both the mapping > database and the data-plane core by coupling it with an instance-ID. And the > instance-ID need only be unique *per mapping database system*. > > Dino > > >> Jari >> >> _______________________________________________ >> lisp mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp > > _______________________________________________ > lisp mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp > _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
