In the short re-charter discussion there was a proposal to offer lisp 
architecture (with multi encapsulations option) as one of the possible control 
planes for nvo3.

There was a comment regarding inter-networking with legacy vpn.
We recently faced such a requirement for service provider-anchored VPN 
overlays. 
These VPN overlays are implemented such that the "real" XTRs are in the 
provider regional data centers, while "satellite" XTRs at customer premise use 
them as anchors and do not use the mapping directly.

Much like Vina's NAT traversal draft. 

This makes it easier to cluster virtual network functions next to the "real" 
XTRs, same rack, and share their capacity across XTRs over the high speed core 
underlay.

The point is that the inter-networking - into and out of the VPN Overlay - is 
handled, much like any other "extra" functionality over basic lisp. It is 
handled the NFV way. 
This means that the complexity of external BGP talkers to other VPNs or to the 
Internet routers is locked inside the VNFs, and the capacity of these VNFs is 
shared across the VPN held by the XTRs using the mapping service as global 
locator.
Similar to the multicast replication function proposal, or similar to how 
firewall functions are chained, using SFC.

Is there interest in such a draft? There should probably be a common part 
applicable to any function, eg the Schema for instances, scoping of each, 
affinity for the return path, and  locations (as in RLOCs), in the mapping. 
Then specifically for the inter VPN VNF what is the lisp FlowMapping behavior 
in each of the XTRs to accommodate. Alternately we can also take it a function 
at a time.

--szb
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