> 
>   1.2 What happens when a prefix administratively changes from behind one
> branch to another ? How do servers get notified about that ?
>  
> [PRAVEEN] That’s an interesting point Fred, and thanks for bringing it up. 
> First, please refer the ADVPN_INFO Payload and PROTECTED_DOMAIN sections (3.6 
> and 3.9, respectively) of 
> http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-sathyanarayan-ipsecme-advpn-03. As a general 
> rule, each spoke can download updated PROTECTED_DOMAIN information 
> periodically, which advertises everything behind the hub and all other spokes 
> combined. Of course, this does not change if some subnet has moved from 
> behind spoke A to behind another spoke, B. However, the Lifetime attribute of 
> the ADVPN_INFO payload is key here. We could see this being employed in a 
> straightforward manner to allow for this transition: a) the subnet can 
> "disappear" and be unreachable for one Lifetime, or b) the original spoke can 
> redirect to the new spoke.

It turns out I did read those sections and this is exactly what surprised me. 
Your answer is even more surprising.

Before going any further, is this resource exclusively exchanged between hub & 
spoke or also between spokes ?

thanks,

        fred
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