That sounds reasonable Joel. We will work on an extended description and
get back to the list.

Thanks,
Alberto

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 9:12 PM, Joel Halpern Direct <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Comparing what we have in 6833bis and NAT Traversal for the xTR-ID in the
> map register, and the proposed text plus the text in the pubsub draft for
> this usage of xTR-ID, it looks to me like we would benefit from a better
> description of this value is to be generated and used. Particularly if we
> want to put it in the base spec.
>
> That said, with a reasonable explanation, it seems reasonable to do that,
> just as we did on the register side.
>
> Yours,
> joel
>
> On 9/20/17 12:05 AM, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal wrote:
>
>> Sure Joel.
>>
>> The xTR-ID in the Map-Request was originally defined for the PubSub draft
>> [1]. In that document, it is used as a way to unequivocally identify
>> subscribers to a mapping.
>>
>> However, we believe that it may have value besides that specific use-case
>> and that RFC6833bis would be a better place to define it.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Alberto
>>
>> [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-rodrigueznatal-lisp-pubsub-00
>>
>> On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 8:43 PM, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>>     I can well believe that is useful.
>>     It would help you you provided use case?
>>
>>     Yours,
>>     Joel
>>
>>
>>     On 9/19/17 10:34 PM, Alberto Rodriguez-Natal wrote:
>>
>>         Hi all,
>>
>>         We would like to suggest updating rfc6833bis [1] to include the
>>         xTR-ID in the Map-Request, in the same way that is already
>>         defined for the Map-Register.
>>
>>         In particular, we propose to update the Map-Request message
>>         format in page 10 to include an I-bit right next to the m-bit
>>         (i.e. the I-bit would be in position 11). We suggest the
>>         following text to be included in page 11, after the explanation
>>         of the m-bit:
>>
>>         “I: This is the xTR-ID bit. When this bit is set, a 128-bit
>>         xTR-ID field followed by a 64-bit Site-ID field are appended to
>>         the end of the Map-Request, immediately following the last
>>         EID-Record (or the Map-Reply Record, if present).”
>>
>>         Let us know what you think.
>>
>>         Thanks,
>>         Alberto
>>
>>         [1] https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lisp-rfc6833bis-05
>>         <https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-lisp-rfc6833bis-05>
>>
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