On 8 Jan. 2013, at 09:23 , Sander Steffann <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> Donning the brightly coloured LISP Chair hat.
>> 
>> The document draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt was handed back to the
>> Workgroup and the document editors following the IETF last call. The LC
>> prompted interesting feedback and highlighted some issues.
>> 
>> The Responsible AD and the LISP chairs have discussed the future of this
>> document. We believe that the future of this document could be best served
>> by splitting it in two (one that allocates/justifies the prefix, and one
>> that describes the LISP specific allocation mechanism) and also altering
>> text to address the concerns raised during the IETF LC.
>> 
>> However, before the WG starts to rework the document, I would first like to
>> canvass the LISP WG as to your opinions.
>> 
>> 1) Should we, as a WG, continue to work on this item? Is it necessary/useful
>> for LISP? 
> 
> Yes, I think it can be very useful for LISP.
> 

+1


>> 2) If so, what direction should the WG take this document so that the LISP
>> experiment is best served?
> 
> What I was missing from the text was:
> - justification for the size of the prefix
> - allocation mechanism

Agreed.

> (AFAICT unaggregated /48 per end-site was intended)

Not that I remember...

> - description on how to use this prefix

Can be improved… I agree.

> - short-term routing strategy / impact on routing table
> - long-term routing strategy / impact on routing table

I think that "routing strategy" is something falling in the "how to use the 
prefix".

Impact on the routing table … depends on "how to use the prefix" ;-)

> - migration path between them
> 

Good point.


> I think that allocating a prefix without describing how it is going to be 
> used is a bad idea for something as important as LISP. I'm not sure if that 
> should be documented in one, two or more documents…
> 

I still prefer having a single document to read.

ciao

Luigi


>> I'd also like to call on those folks (as Brian did) who offered review of
>> this document (CC'd here) during the IETF last call to participate on the
>> LISP mailing list as to its future.
> 
> Of course! :-)
> Sander
> 
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