This sounds all fine to me. Please just make sure that the text reflects that accordingly everywhere where ALT is mentioned at the moment and respectively make it more generic if needed. I trust you, you will edit this correctly!
> Am 13.09.2018 um 17:17 schrieb Dino Farinacci <[email protected]>: > > > >> On Sep 13, 2018, at 12:58 AM, Luigi Iannone <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi Dino, >> >>> On 13 Sep 2018, at 00:03, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Actually I brought this up because there were more cases where I found >>>> that ALT knowledge is needed. If you don’t want this to be a normative >>>> reference and remove the sentence above (which I’m not sure is helpful), >>>> please also double-check all other occurrences of ALT and make sure the >>>> discussed case is also understandable without ALT knowledge. >>> >> >> I disagree on the approach. IMO it makes more sense to me that this document >> describes just the Map-Server/Map-Resolver front end. >> How the front-end works with the actual mapping system is a matter of the >> specific mapping system. >> In other words, how Map-Server/Map-Resolver works with LISP-DDT should be in >> the LISP-DDT document. Ditto for LISP+ALT. > > I can go along with this. I have wordsmithed that paragraph to not mention > LISP-ALT. > >> >>> I think it should left in and we should add LISP-DDT to the paragraph. >>> Since the two mapping transport systems that have moved forward to RFC are >>> ALT and DDT. And I believe they should both be Normative References. >>> >> >> This means two downrefs. We will need to move them to PS. >> I really do not see the need for this but YMMV. > > I will keep then as Informative references. And to address Mirja’s comment > about believing that a reader would need to know more about ALT and DDT, I > would respond to say, that the documentation is saying that a map-server and > map-resolver are last-hops/first-hops to ANY mapping database transport > system. So you can treat it as a black box. The operation of these nodes are > discussed in the approprorate mapping database transport systems (such as > LISP-ALT and LISP-DDT). > > There are also refernces to LISP-ALT (and LISP-DDT) when we have the option > for xTRs to be directlry part of the mapping system. This may be a choice for > LISP deployers when they want a less centralized mapping system. Again, there > are just references that in this case, the xTRs are “first-hop/last-hop” > nodes of these mapping database systems. > > How does that sound Mirja? > > Dino > >> >> Ciao >> >> L. >> > _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
