> Hi,
> 
>>> How are you going to allocate space to ISPs?
>> 
>> This is PI space. The registries will take portions of this space to 
>> allocate to end devices.
> 
> Are you thinking about the existing RIRs here? If so: it might be a good idea 
> to notify them that this is coming.

Nothing is coming. Nothing really needs to change.

But if there is anything written up to define allocation procedures, the RIRs 
can review such a document.

The main motivation for this prefix is to optimize ITRs so they know that a 
destination is in a LISP site. This COULD eliminate a mapping database lookup 
for a destination not in this range. Meaning, if a packet is destined to a 
non-EID, you may know this by inspecting the address rather than asking the 
mapping system.

>> This draft is purely a draft to REQUEST space. There will need to be a 
>> deployment guide on how to allocate EIDs, in general.
> 
> And if the RIR system is used every RIR will develop its own policy for 
> allocating EIDs independently (hopefully based on the recommendations in such 
> a deployment guide). It will have to be very clear whose responsibility it is 
> to allocate from this space, and when assigning responsibility it might be a 
> good idea to make sure they accept that responsibility too.

Right.

> Note that I am not opposing the idea. I'm just trying to make sure this 
> address space doesn't disappear into a black hole because nobody takes the 
> responsibility to manage it.
> 
> One thing we have to be very careful with here is that EIDs are not directly 
> allocated/assigned to end sites from this block. That will cause everyone to 
> independently find (different) PITRs for their space,

Why not?

> which will make a mess of the global IPv6 routing table...

And why do you think you need to assign PITRs per sub-block?

Dino

> 
> Thanks,
> Sander
> 

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