> On 28 Oct 2017, at 18:15, Rene 'Renne' Bartsch, B.Sc. Informatics 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> Am 27.10.2017 um 06:30 schrieb Dino Farinacci:
>>> I'm not that happy with
>>> 
>>> "As the architecture is realized, if a given bit string is both an RLOC and 
>>> an EID, it must refer to the same entity in both cases".
>>> 
>>> In a MESH-architecture the EID of a mobile-node can be the RLOC of a 
>>> neighbour mobile-node.
>> I too would like to understand your comment.
>> 
>> What the sentence is trying to achieve is that in some cases an EID and RLOC 
>> may be the same value for a given end-node. Like when when an EID is behind 
>> a NAT and the xTR is on the public side of the NAT, where the local private 
>> EID will be translated to a global EID and to reach the xTR the RLOC is also 
>> the same translated address.
>> 
>> Dino
> 
> Sorry, I missed the context and thought it is generally valid.
> 
> The basic idea for a MESH-network is a LISP-node which acts as a xTR for 
> itself and a RTR for the neighbour-nodes. In that case the string is a LEID 
> for the MESH-node and a RLOC for the neighbour MESH-nodes. As the phrasing 
> does not apply in this case, I'm happy with the removed "EIDs MUST NOT be 
> used as LISP RLOCs". ;-)

I think I’ve got it now.

In my personal opinion I agree with you. EID and RLOCs are relative to the 
deployment model and such a strong requirement is not really useful/needed.

Luigi

> 
> 
> Renne
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