> Of course for someone who knows LISP it is trivial that it is separated.  The
> issue is how to move forward and ensure that LISP control plane is not bound 
> at
> all to a particular data-plane.  Actually, since the beginning we say LISP is
> map-and-encap so it means two components mapping and encapsulation, that seems
> thus very logical to me to have to documents, one for "mapping", one for
> “encapsulation”.

If the new charter allows to incorporate additional data-planes, then 
RFC6830bis could be structured to (1) indicate that multiple data-planes can be 
used and (2) how more we can decouple the data-plane from the control-plane.

> At a first glance it could look like just being marketing but actually 
> splitting
> would allow both planes to be developed (and updated) in parallel.

There are pros and cons either way.

Dino


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