>-----Original Message-----
>From: Noel Chiappa [mailto:[email protected]]
>Sent: Friday, January 16, 2009 1:42 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Cc: [email protected]
>Subject: Re: [rrg] No liveness requirement in the ID/Loc Split concept
>
>
>    > From: "Templin, Fred L" <[email protected]>
>
>    > If what LISP is calling an EID is indeed an IPvN address (it is)
>
>But it's not, not really,

It's not really an IPvN address? Does it say that somewhere?

Fred
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>because it's not necessarily routable in a global
>scope (depending on exactly where you are in the deployment process,
e.g.
>after routes to that part of the namespace have been withdrawn in the
core).
>
>Also, in later phases of the development of the network, depending on
exactly
>what happens (e.g. if we start to move the xTR functionality into
first/last-
>hop routers), some/most/all instances of legacy IPvN 'addresses' might
have
>zero routing functionality.
>
>We're trying to fit these things into too few, Procrustean,
terminological
>bins (and having impressively useless debates in doing so). Best to
describe
>in detail exactly what the properties of a given namespace, in a
particular
>design, are, and leave aside the angels-on-pins arguments about what
category
>they fall into.
>
>       Noel
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