Arturo, On Mar 5, 2013, at 6:35 AM, Arturo Servin <[email protected]> wrote: > One of the good things of RIRs (IMHO) is the policy process and their > self-regulation, however that is also their Achilles heel when you need > something really quick and easy.
I remain unclear as to the need for heavyweight policy processes and/or self-regulation in the allocation of flat namespace identifiers. Neither were/are necessary for the allocation of PENs and the vast majority of the other resources the IETF has specified. Can you explain why you believe you need the RIR policy processes and complex self-regulator regimes for the allocation of EIDs? > It is true that you would need an individual or a group of them to make > a policy to mandate the RIRs to and it would take at least a few months > (to several months if the community do not find the policy appealing). As I asked before: >> if some RIRs approve of getting into the EID Leasing business and some >> don't, does that mean the enterprises that live in the regions served by >> RIRs that don't want to hand out EIDs can't participate in the LISP >> experiments? I personally don't think it makes any sense to regionalize EIDs. You would appear to feel differently. Can you explain why? > May be RIRs are not the perfect fit for EIDs, but what other mechanisms > to support registration and services? As Jeff points out, the services that need to be provided for the allocation, registration, and related services for EIDs are not that hard or expensive. Where things get tricky is (a) scaling up to meet exponential growth and (b) dealing with inter-governmental politics. At this point in LISP's evolution, I do not believe either are an immediate concern. > My suggestion to the draft authors would be to identify as Joel > suggested the requirements of the assignment of EIDs. Then contact RIRs > communities to see how good or bad is the idea to task RIRs with the > allocation of this new resources. Depending on that we could move forward. I agree 100% with the first part. I'm struggling to understand the need for the second part, but that can be deferred until the requirements are identified. Thanks, -drc _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
