Dino Farinacci wrote:
These definitions are fine with me.
But people are going to ask where does a MAC address and a LISP EID fit
into these definitions.
AFAIK, our job was not to define LISP. That's your job. ;-)
A MAC address and a LISP EID are both identifiers which also have
topological significance within a scope.
As I think we discussed, possibly after you left, a MAC address was
originally conceived of as a pure identifier. It's L2 locator semantics
were overloaded onto it when people conceived of bridging. None of
these make the MAC address into an L3 locator.
And they are more like
identifiers, as defined below because when they move within that scope
they *can* change (MAC addresses don't but LISP EIDs should). But they
do have local scope topological significance as defined by locator below.
As far as I can tell, a LISP EID is simply a higher layer address in a
two level address hierarchy. The RLOC the lower layer address.
Tony
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