> The MAP-MIB draft has been updated as -03 version.
> 
> In IETF85@Atlanta, we had a brief discussion, and the main comment was from 
> Mark Townsley. He pointed out that the tunnel table defined in the draft 
> would make the BR recording every CEs' addresses connected to it. This 
> operation would somewhat counterbalance the benefit of stateless design. 
> Basically, Mark's comment is a real issue, but not that serious. The tunnel 
> table needs the translation/encapsulation application to provide CE address 
> to the MIB agent, that might slightly impact the forwarding performance, but 
> it is far from the weight of "stateful", because the the BR tunnel table is 
> not for real-time look up, it is just a kind of logging. In the worst 
> situation, even the MIB crash, the packet forwarding won't be bothered.
> 
> The purpose we defined a tunnel table is to add some statistics of CE 
> connecting BR. For example, the ISP might want to know how many/what CEs had 
> been connected to a certain BR.  This might be useful for service analysis 
> and management, e.g. to static percentage of MAP enabled and the traffic, so 
> that the ISP could learn the status of MAP deployment/usage, then might make 
> some policies. 
> Considering the tunnel table might still more or less bring some additional 
> complexity, we defined it as an optional object in the MIB. We defined two 
> map-MIB-Compliance, one is basic compliance only containing the rule table, 
> the other is full compliance containing rule table and tunnel table. 

how is the BR supposed to learn the CE addresses?

cheers,
Ole
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