Re: [RAM] Comment on draft-farinacci-lisp-00.txt (LISP)

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov at juniper.net>]

Noel,

>     > From: Yakov Rekhter <yakov at juniper.net>
> 
>     > My question was in the context of LISP 1.5.
> 
> Dino just mentioned how LISP 1 is a "phase 0 prototype effort", and I suspect
> the same is true, in some ways, of many of the lower numbered LISP variants.
> My sense is that the one that gets deployed in large-scale operational
> service is likely to be LISP 4 or 5 (or more), i.e. one that's not yet
> defined.
> 
> My guess is that the architectural commonality between LISP 1/1.5/etc and the
> eventual deployed stuff is likely to be:
> 
> - Hosts and local routers don't need to be modified
> - The existing internetwork layer is "jacked up" to become mostly an
> 	end-end host naming layer
> - End-end names are mapped into new locators as they cross the boundary

What you called "end-end names" are not really "end-end names" but
locators. It just the scope of these locators is not the whole
Internet. What you do at the boundaries is mapping of site-wide
locators into the ISP locators. 

Yakov.

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