>> ...We should do that in any case, but we shouldn’t block or slow down the
>> process. We can do this in Prague but go with Joel’s suggestion for now.
> 
> Makes sense. I think that Florin's email hints at a very small edit to Joel's 
> suggestion, which I will mention in reply to his email. 

Ack Ross. Thanks.

Dino

> 
> Ross
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dino Farinacci [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: Monday, April 13, 2015 3:58 PM
> To: Ross Callon
> Cc: Darrel Lewis; LISP mailing list list; 
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [lisp] WG Last Call draft-ietf-lisp-impact-01
> 
>> Dino, I am not sure that you read my earlier email quite the way that I 
>> meant to explain the issue. One 
> 
> Well I read the words you wrote.  ;-)
> 
>> reason for more specifics being advertised is that some ISPs don't want 
>> incoming traffic split by source, but rather by destination. Probably to 
>> agree on how this would work with LISP we need to sit down in person and 
>> discuss this with white boards and pictures. 
> 
> What ISPs want more than anything else is balanced load. And if they have to 
> vary from that point, they go more granular. And that usually means by source 
> or 5-tuple hashing in the data-plane.
> 
>> To me it seems like there are two ways forward here: One option is to go 
>> with what Joel suggested earlier, and add to the document something along 
>> the lines that the scaling numbers are disputed and we don't actually know 
>> how it scales. The other option would be for at least the two of us to sit 
>> down in 
> 
> I agree. 
> 
> We don’t know how ANYTHING scales until it gets there. Where “there” is some 
> point. Is BGP scaling? So this will always come down to subjective opinion 
> and perspective from different points of view.
> 
>> person as soon as we get a chance (no later than Prague, hopefully earlier 
>> if either of us gets a trip to the other's neck of the woods). I don't 
>> currently have any trips planned to California, but could let you know if I 
>> do and try to plan to stay an extra day to go over this. 
> 
> We should do that in any case, but we shouldn’t block or slow down the 
> process. We can do this in Prague but go with Joel’s suggestion for now.
> 
> Dino
> 
>> 
>> Thanks, Ross
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dino Farinacci [mailto:[email protected]] 
>> Sent: Friday, April 10, 2015 2:16 AM
>> To: Ross Callon
>> Cc: Darrel Lewis; LISP mailing list list; 
>> [email protected]
>> Subject: Re: [lisp] WG Last Call draft-ietf-lisp-impact-01
>> 
>>> However, there is a reason that some more specific prefixes are advertised 
>>> (in addition to a covering less specific prefix). One reason is that some 
>>> service providers want incoming traffic delivered to them via different 
>>> interconnects based on the destination. Even if you are doing traffic
>> 
>> Right but if you want that with LISP you can return a coarse prefix in a 
>> Map-Reply with different priority values to different ITRs. It doesn't 
>> require for more-specifics. 
>> 
>>> engineering with LISP, then this reason doesn't go away, and isn't solved 
>>> by sending only the less specific prefix in the map reply. Of course there 
>>> are other
>> 
>> Yes it is solved. With a push protocol to instruct traffic to come one way 
>> or the other is only done with multiple prefixes where with LISP it can be 
>> done with the same prefix but is tailored on a per source or request basis. 
>> 
>>> reasons to advertise more specific prefixes, and on the most part these 
>>> don't go away either. I therefore feel that it was an error for the study 
>>> discussed in [CCD12] to "... filter out more specific prefixes".
>> 
>> It doesn't follow at all to me. 
>> 
>> Dino
> 

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