Hi Noel I happen to see this email, quite interested in this topic, may I get a copy of your initial version of the "intro document" ? what's the purpose of the document, a new RFC draft ?
thanks a lot in advance. Jeffrey Cai On Thu, Oct 24, 2013 at 4:17 AM, Noel Chiappa <[email protected]>wrote: > In the previous version of the Intro document, we had a sub-section (in the > "Initial Applications" section) titled "Local Uses" which started like > this: > > LISP has a number of use cases which are within purely local > contexts, i.e. not in the larger Internet. These fall into two > categories: uses seen on the Internet (above), but here on a private > (and usually small scale) setting; and applications which do not have > a direct analog in the larger Internet, and which apply only to local > deployments. > > Among the former are multi-homing, IP version traversal, and support > of VPN's for segmentation and multi-tenancy (i.e. a spatially > separated private VPN whose components are joined together using the > public Internet as a backbone). > > As a result of the interim, we apparently decided to break out VPN's as a > separate sub-section, because I know have a new sub-section: > > Virtual Private Networks > > This includes support of VPN's for segmentation and multi-tenancy > (i.e. a spatially separated private VPN whose components are joined > together using the public Internet as a backbone). > > and the cryptic note "L2 and L3". > > > I'm really lost as to what the document should say/talk about in this > sub-section, and I'm not sure what that "L2 and L3" should expand into > (presumably it refers to both bridged VPNs at level 2, and also 'classic' > VPNs at level 3). > > There doesn't seem to be a lot written about VPN support in LISP: there is > one ID ("Layer 2 (L2) LISP Encapsulation Format"), but it mostly just gives > the packet format; a quick Google search didn't turn up anything that > useful > either. > > Can people give me some idea what this sub-section should say? I don't need > text, just a list of points to cover. Thanks! > > Noel > _______________________________________________ > lisp mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp > -- - jeffrey
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