Hi Dino,

My comments inline.

> On Oct 9, 2023, at 22:41, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Hi Dino,
>> 
>> A few comments inline
>> 
>>> On Oct 7, 2023, at 00:54, Dino Farinacci <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Here are my comments. The charter text comes first and is indented and my 
>>> comments follow:
>>> 
>>>> LISP Working Group Charter ProposalProposed Charter: Introduction
>>>> LISP supports a routing architecture which decouples the routing locators 
>>>> and identifiers, thus allowing for efficient
>>> 
>>> "... supports an overlay routing …"
>> 
>> Is it really necessary?
> 
> Well I think so since we changed the solution space of LISP from "saving the 
> routing tables" to a more general overlay solution.

Added in the PL just submitted.

> 
>> 
>>>> aggregation of the routing locator space and providing persistent 
>>>> identifiers in the identifier space. LISP requires no changes to 
>>>> end-systems or to routers that do not directly participate in the LISP 
>>>> deployment. LISP aims for an incrementally deployable protocol, so new 
>>>> features and services can be added easily and quickly to the network using 
>>>> overlays. The scope of the LISP technology is potentially applicable to 
>>>> have a large span.The LISP WG is chartered to continue work on the LISP 
>>>> protocol and produce standard-track documents.
>>> 
>>> I would add some of the more explicit features that overlay routing can do 
>>> and how LISP actually has done so and specified at a very detailed level. 
>>> Some examples are mobility, VPNs, multicast, mix protocol family, all with 
>>> the latest in security mechanisms.
>> 
>> We are not promoting LISP here, we are listing the work items. Let’s keep it 
>> simple and to the point.
> 
> That is okay, but you did give some basic features as you describe "how it 
> works".

We do not need to be exhaustive here ;-)

> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Proposed Charter: Work Items Part 1
>>>>  • NAT-Traversal: Support for NAT-traversal solution in deployments where 
>>>> LISP tunnel routers are separated from correspondent tunnel routers by a 
>>>> NAT (e.g., LISP mobile node).
>>>>  • YANG models for managing the LISP protocol and deployments that include 
>>>> data models, OAM, as well as allowing for programmable management 
>>>> interfaces. These management methods should be considered for both the 
>>>> data-plane, control plane, and mapping system components.
>>>>  • Multicast Support: LISP support for multicast environments has a 
>>>> growing number of use cases. Support for multicast is needed in order to 
>>>> achieve scalability. The current documents [Ref to experimental multicast 
>>>> RFCs] should be merged and published as Standard Track.
>>> 
>>> I think the smaller work items that we can knock out should be in Part 1 
>>> like geo-coordinates and name-encoding.
>> 
>> Geo coordinates is part of the mobility bullet point.
> 
> Right, that is misplaced IMO. GPS can be used for mobility but none of the 
> mobility drafts that state mechanisms refer to it. Like VPNs and TE, GPS is 
> its own category.

I agree with the point made by Padma in her reply; putting geo coordinates in 
the mobility group does not limit its application to mobility.

Ciao

L.


> 
>> 
>>> And there is no mention of VPN and TE support. It needs to go in somewhere.
>> 
>> VPN is later on. TE is indeed missing, we need to include it somewhere.
> 
> Ack.
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> Proposed Charter: Work Items Part 2
>>>>  • Standard Track Documents: The core specifications of LISP have been 
>>>> published as “Standard Track” [references]. The WG will continue the work 
>>>> of moving select specifications to “Standard Track”.
>>>>  • Mobility: Some LISP deployment scenarios include mobile nodes (in 
>>>> mobile environments) or Virtual Machines (VMs in data centers), hence, 
>>>> support needs to be provided in order to achieve seamless connectivity.
>>>>  • Privacy and Security: The WG will work on topics of EID anonymity, VPN 
>>>> segmentation leveraging on the Instance ID, and traffic anonymization. The 
>>>> reuse of existing mechanisms will be prioritized.
>>> 
>>> I would not call VPN segmentation as security. I view it more as 
>>> topological member grouping.
>> 
>> Which is also used for security purposes.
>>> 
> 
> Right but goes beyond it.

And like for the geo coordinates and TE you can use it beyond that scope.


> 
>>>>  • LISP Applicability: In time, LISP has proved to be a very flexible 
>>>> protocol that can be used in various use-cases not even considered during 
>>>> its design phase. RFC 7215, while remaining a good source of information, 
>>>> covers one single use case, which is not anymore the main LISP application 
>>>> scenario. The LISP WG will document LISP deployments for most recent and 
>>>> relevant use-cases so as to update RFC 7215.
>>>> Proposed Charter: Tentative Milestones
>>>>  • November 2023: Submit a LISP YANG document to the IESG for consideration
>>>>  • March 2024: Submit a LISP NAT Traversal document to the IESG for 
>>>> consideration
>>>>  • June 2024: Submit 8111bis to the IESG for consideration
>>>>  • June 2024 : Submit LISP geo-coordinates for consideration
>>> 
>>> This, with name-encoding, can get done sooner. We just have to push harder.
>>> 
>>>>  • November 2024: Submit merged Multicast document to the IESG for 
>>>> consideration
>>> 
>>> Note, from the previous email you referred to "underlay-multicast-trees". 
>>> That document has changed its name to reflect what it really is designing, 
>>> its titled draft-vdas-lisp-group-mapping-00.
>> 
>> As for previous comments we better avoid “merged”, may be just use 
>> “multicast documentS”.
> 
> Ack.
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>>  • March 2025: Submit 6832bis pXTRs to the IESG for consideration
>>>>  • June 2025: Submit merged LCAFbis to the IESG for considerations
>>>>  • November 2025: Submit LISP Mobile Node to the IESG for considerations
>>>>  • March 2026: Submit LISP Applicability document to the IESG for 
>>>> considerations
>>>>  • November 2026: Wrap-Up or recharter
>>> 
>>> There should be some mention on what to do with the use-case documents. 
>>> Either a spin-off operational working group, or publish as Informational or 
>>> something else.
>> 
>> May be we need to be explicit in the “LISP applicability” bullet point about 
>> informational document.
> 
> Right, agree.
> 
>> 
>>> 
>>> And the same for draft-farinacci-lisp-decent, which is the only mapping 
>>> database document on the table. I think its more than a operational 
>>> use-case since there is design mechanisms and algorithms in the 
>>> specification.
>> 
>> AFAIR the LISP WG has showed low interest in the decent mapping system, that 
>> is the reason why there is no explicit mapping system in the charter.
> 
> Well I am not sure we have asked. Or at least not yet. And the authors have 
> never requested it as a WG document. So use this as a request to adopt as WG 
> document? Can you ask the list officially?
> 
> Dino
> 

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