> Clearly, scalability of LISP matters.
> However, we are explicitly not attempting to move LISP to standards track for 
> purposes of solving global Internet address scaling problems. The agreement 
> under which we are doing this is to focus on the value of the other uses of 
> LISP.

Right, that is not the sole problem to solve. But removing the features of what 
overlays bring to the document would not be a good idea.

> To put it simply Dino, if we try to make the argument that LISP is suitable 
> for Internet-scale 

That is not what the text is saying. The text that people are commenting on is 
that the aggregatabeility of RLOC addresses should be present in the document.

> deployment, and for solving the core growth difficulties, we will have a 
> large set of additional arguments to undertake.  If we focus on what we have 
> agreed, we get Proposed Standards without having that fight.  And we get to 
> use a PS for all sorts of interesting and desirable tasks.

I agree that the document should not say we are trying to scale the Internet. 
And I believe it does not say that.

Dino

> 
> Yours,
> Joel
> 
> On 12/26/17 11:13 PM, Dino Farinacci wrote:
>> I will comment here before providing a new update and response to Luigi’s 
>> latest email.
>>> On Dec 26, 2017, at 5:48 PM, Albert Cabellos <[email protected]> 
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hi
>>> 
>>> Thanks for the review, please find my comments inline.
>>> 
>>> I have removed all the comments for which I **agree**:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>   Provider-Assigned (PA) Addresses:   PA addresses are an address block
>>>>      assigned to a site by each service provider to which a site
>>>>      connects.  Typically, each block is a sub-block of a service
>>>>      provider Classless Inter-Domain Routing (CIDR) [RFC4632] block and
>>>>      is aggregated into the larger block before being advertised into
>>>>      the global Internet.  Traditionally, IP multihoming has been
>>>>      implemented by each multihomed site acquiring its own globally
>>>>      visible prefix.  LISP uses only topologically assigned and
>>>>      aggregatable address blocks for RLOCs, eliminating this
>>>>      demonstrably non-scalable practice.
>>>> 
>>>> Last sentence to be deleted is a relic of scalability discussion.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Agreed. I suggest deleting entirely the definitions for both PA and PI, 
>>> they are not used throughout the document.
>> Note, we still care about scalability of any underlay, especially the 
>> Internet core, so we should leave this in. Note, we ARE still solving the 
>> scalability problem.
>> I don’t know why any of you would think differently.

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