Folks,

The editors correctly observe that Section 6.2 needs to be rewritten. A better 
approach would be to note that LISP is a map-and-encap strategy. An ingress 
encapsulation endpoint:

- accepts a packet that is addressed from one address space (EID)
- maps the EID addresses to corresponding addresses in another space (LOC)
- encapsulates the incoming packet in another that is addressed using LOC space
- forwards the packet to the egress encapsulation endpoint where it is 
de-encapsulated

In this regard, LISP is similar to many other encapsulation and VPN 
technologies (e.g., GRE, L3VPN). 

LISP is different from GRE and L3VPN because it pulls mapping information to 
itself. By contrast, GRE mapping information is generally configured 
statically. L3VPN mapping information is pushed by BGP. Therefore, LISP must 
deal with the problems of stale mapping information and cache misses. Also, 
LISP must deal with the problem of egress encapsulation node liveness.

Ron Bonica

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