I can change the spec to be more specific as you suggest. Would that work for you?
Dino > On Oct 16, 2023, at 12:38 PM, Joel Halpern <[email protected]> wrote: > > To point to one example of the problem, this draft defines "push based" as > using multicast. Decent uses multicast. But not all push based systems use > multicast. The definitions of push-based and pull-based should be general. > Decent-pulll and decent-push (or some other terms) can be defined as this > document uses them. > > Yours, > > Joel > > On 10/16/2023 3:36 PM, Dino Farinacci wrote: >>> Relative to the LISP mapping system, the terms pull-based and push-based >>> long predate this draft. There was an original push-based mapping system >>> proposed (in which all mappings were pushed to all ITRs). While we decided >>> not to advance that, >> Right, the LISP-Decent pushed-based uses multicast. The other one, NERD, >> used management protocols and not a control plane if I recall. >> >>> the term had an understood meaning. Also, pull-based and push-based have >>> well-defined meaning in many contexts. This draft >> The pull-based is what all the mapping systems are using. For LISP-Decent we >> wanted to distinguish the pull-based mechanism based on hashing from the >> push-base multicast method. >> >>> seems to use those terms in a rather idiosyncratic (not incorrect, but >>> confusing) fashion. I am not sure whether different terms or additional >>> qualifiers are the better solution. >> Did I make it clearer? >> >> Dino >> >>> Yours, >>> >>> Joel >>> >>> On 10/16/2023 9:40 AM, IETF Secretariat wrote: >>>> The LISP WG has placed draft-farinacci-lisp-decent in state >>>> Call For Adoption By WG Issued (entered by Luigi Iannone) >>>> >>>> The document is available at >>>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-farinacci-lisp-decent/ >>>> >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> lisp mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp _______________________________________________ lisp mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/lisp
