Hi Luigi,

It does not since no changes have been made related to my DISCUSS comments.

Please let me know if f2f discussion can help.

Thanks,
Ketan


On Wed, 23 Jul, 2025, 5:00 pm Luigi Iannone, <g...@gigix.net> wrote:

> Hi Ketan,
>
> A new revision of this document is now available
> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lisp-geo-18
>
> Can you tell us if it addresses you concerns?
>
> Thanks
>
> Luigi
>
> On 17 Jun 2025, at 21:36, Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I have submitted -17, FYI.
>
> Dino
>
> On Jun 17, 2025, at 5:55 AM, Ketan Talaulikar <ketant.i...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi Dino,
>
> Please check inline below for follow-up with KT2.
>
>
> On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> KT> Looks like my comment was not clear. I am asking for a more detailed
> specification of the mechanics that you are referring to in the use-cases.
> Let us take an example:
>
> This can aid in determining geographical distance when topological
> distance is inaccurate or hidden.
>
>
> You need geo distance when you may be testing for wireless signal range.
> Where topologically, at layer-2 or layer-3 is not relevant. We are also
> using geo-coordinates to locate things or to keep inventory of things.
>
> KT> How is this geographical distance exactly calculated? Any reference?
> If not please specify. What is the unit of distance used? Does the document
> propose to change the route calculation to shift from the topological
> distance (coming from say underlying IGP?) to this geographical distance
> now?
>
>
> From a Geo-prefix, you build a sphere. If the geo-point is not inside of
> the sphere, you can determine something like "this device is not in San
> Francisco". So pick any point on the surface of the sphere and calculate
> the distance between the geo-point and any point on the sphere. To
> calculate distacne, see next paragraph.
>
> When you want to know the distance between two points, there are geo
> libraries tht compute it based on roughly 100km going north and south
> (depending how close the points are to the equator) and same for longatude
> for east-west direction.
>
> The unit distance is kilometers.
>
> KT2> Let me take a step back. Getting Geo-Prefixes in EID and RLOC records
> looks to me as a protocol specification and not a use-case. Making map
> requests for these records and the map server returning the information
> (using physical distance) is also a protocol behavior specification - not a
> use-case. Therefore, I find all of this being under a "use-case" section as
> misleading and I am checking why this isn't covered as a specification -
> beyond just the encoding. Furthermore, "there are geo libraries that
> compute" does not seem to fully specify how this works - we'll need some
> references that point to how this calculation works or it can be specified
> inline. Are there any interoperability considerations here if different
> components of the LISP control plane were to interpret or compute these
> distances in a different way?
>
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> COMMENT:
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Please also find below some comments on this document:
>
> Support of other DISCUSS positions:
>
> 1) I support Deb's DISCUSS position related to the reference to
> OSPF/ISIS/BGP
> individual drafts that carry similar extensions. Those documents have
> expired
> several years ago. None of them were adopted by their respective WGs -
> presumably due to lack of interest by the community? The case for changing
> existing LISP extensions for geo-coordinates (also an experimental RFC8060
> section 4.3) for the (sole?) reason of bringing consistency across routing
> protocols does not look sound to me. Were there any
> implementations/deployments
> of the encoding of RFC8060 that necessitate this change?
>
>
> I hope Deb can accept Med's comments so I made changes to reflect those.
>
> KT> That text change looks good to me. However, the justification of
> changing the encoding that was in RFC8060 is not captured in this document
> and that is what I am looking for. The point of consistency with other
> protocols is moot (IMHO) since they don't exist today and those protocols
> might as well use RFC8060 encoding (if/when someone really picks that up)
> if consistency is all that we need. I hope you get my point.
>
>
> It is beacuse we added more features to the encoding. Like cm granularity
> and radius to support Geo-Prefixes. ZSo the 8060 version is obsolete and
> hence we created a new code point in this document.
>
> KT> Great. Could you please also add that as the reason for making the
> change over proposal in RFC 8060 (as opposed to the current consistency
> argument across routing protocols)?
>
> Thanks,
> Ketan
>
>
> Dino
>
>
>
>
>
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