> On Apr 23, 2024, at 09:25, Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> My preference is to update RFC 8060.
> 
How many implementations are using RFC 8060 and will be impacted?

Thanks
 Padma

> Dino
> 
>> On Apr 23, 2024, at 12:24 PM, Joel Halpern <j...@joelhalpern.com> wrote:
>> 
>> From where I sit, doing nothing should be a non-starter.  We have a 
>> published RFC.  We are allowed to change our mind.
>> 
>> But...
>> 
>> 1) We need to be explicit about making such a change.  Which involves 
>> updating the existing RFC.
>> 
>> 2) Any such change needs to explain why it is being changed. Just because a 
>> later implementation did it differently, without a standard, does not 
>> justify changing the standard.  If there is an actual benefit to the change 
>> we should step up, admit we are changing it, and explain why.
>> 
>> Yours,
>> 
>> Joel
>> 
>> On 4/23/2024 11:48 AM, Dino Farinacci wrote:
>>>> As I said, the simplest solution is to use a different type value. This 
>>>> allows to still use the old encoding and does not obsoletes 
>>>> implementations that use it.
>>> You will obsolete implementations if we do that. Which really means you 
>>> make the spec irrelevant. So I say stay with the same code point.
>>> 
>>>> Option B. This document officially updates 8060, but this means that 
>>>> existing implementation of the 8060 encoding are not valid anymore.
>>> Right. But so much time has passed between from when the lisp-geo spec was 
>>> published I believe most implementations have done lisp-geo encoding vs RFC 
>>> 8060. My lispers.net implementation does the lisp-geo encoding with the 
>>> type defined in the draft which is the same as RFC 8060.
>>> 
>>>> How many implementation of this draft are you aware of?
>>> I think cisco and lispers.net. But cisco has to confirm.
>>> 
>>> I think we should do Option C which is do nothing to RFC 8060 and put text 
>>> in the lisp-geo spec which indicates its encoding takes precedent over RFC 
>>> 8060 using the same code point and document all implementations have 
>>> evolved to the lisp-geo spec.
>>> 
>>> Dino
>>> 
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