We are not supplanting the mechanism for routing. There is a layer above 
routing that can (1) pull like DNS, and/or (2) push like BGP to realize an 
overlay.

Dino

> On Sep 11, 2018, at 10:30 AM, Kyle Rose <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 11, 2018 at 1:11 PM, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:
> > but this doesn't specifically address the fact that a pull-based control 
> > plane will fail in a different way, and one that is potentially harder to 
> > diagnose, from a push-based one. One area in which it differs is that a 
> > loss of a BGP session followed by a network partition is obvious to all 
> > users trying to move traffic between those two networks, while choking off 
> > control plane traffic in LISP may only affect some endpoints in a 
> > mysterious way.
> 
> IMO, a feature and not a bug. And arguably harder to diagnose makes it more 
> secure.
> 
> Possibly. But being better or worse isn't my point, so much that it's 
> *different* in a material way from a security perspective. Those deltas are 
> where something proposing to supplant the prevailing mechanism for DFZ 
> routing needs to be clear to operators. 
> 
> Kyle
> 

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