Ian,

>>> No. As long as you know what particular mechanism you B4 vendor has 
>>> implemented, you can provision accordingly.
>>> 
>>> The lwAFTR never has to do the LPM. It’s just got a tunnel endpoint address 
>>> configured by the operator.
>> 
>> I'm not comfortable with that.
> 
> [ian] Why aren’t you comfortable with it?

I thought that was obvious.
- it reinvents the wheel
- and it reinvents a wheel that is less round than the one already invented.

is there any reason why you cannot use the existing wheel?
or feel free to invent a better one, and we can adopt that for MAP.

cheers,
Ole


> 
>> 
>> is there any reason why you couldn't do it as MAP does?
>> 
>> - include a "Domain IPv6 prefix" in the set of provisioning parameters.
>> - the client does a longest match between the Domain IPv6 prefix and the 
>> End-user IPv6 prefixes
>> and uses that to create the tunnel end point address.
>> 
>> that also allows the operator to use either the WAN side /64 or an address 
>> out of the PD as the tunnel endpoint address.
>> 
>> cheers,
>> Ole

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