Thanks Acee,

We’ll wait for the new version from Dino and build on top with clarifying text 
in this section.

Marc

From: Acee Lindem <acee.i...@gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, July 18, 2024 at 9:08 AM
To: Marc Portoles Comeras (mportole) <mport...@cisco.com>
Cc: Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com>, 
draft-ietf-lisp-name-encod...@ietf.org 
<draft-ietf-lisp-name-encod...@ietf.org>, LISP mailing list list 
<lisp@ietf.org>, rtgwg-...@ietf.org <rtgwg-...@ietf.org>, Routing Directorate 
<rtg-...@ietf.org>
Subject: Re: Routing Directorate Last Call Review for "LISP Distinguished Name 
Encoding" - draft-ietf-lisp-name-encoding-08
HI Marc,

> On Jul 18, 2024, at 11:51 AM, Marc Portoles Comeras (mportole) 
> <mport...@cisco.com> wrote:
>
> Acee,
>  >>> 3. In section 9.2, The description of the onboarding process includes
> >>>    very specific details that aren't fully explained. Would it be
> >>>    possible to describe the use case at a higher level?
> >>
> >> This is some text from the cisco guys. I don't know how to change that. 
> >> They have the intellectual property on it.
>
> >That’s fine with me then. It was just unclear to me how a DN would provide 
> >stability to the reliable transport session - would this allow the session 
> >to be recovered using a different UDP for?
>  The use-case described came up when running LISP in environments with 
> endpoint mobility.
> In those environments is not uncommon to have LISP xTRs that, at times, don’t 
> have any endpoint locally connected. When this happens, these xTRs tear down 
> the TCP connection (or don’t even start it) because they don’t have any EID 
> to register with the Mapping System.
> As you mention, when endpoints join the xTR again, the whole cycle starts 
> again. New EIDs are available, first a new UDP registration is sent and then 
> the xTR and MS re-establish the TCP session.
> To avoid this churn the DN registration comes very handy, because it creates 
> a permanent EID to register and avoids constantly bringing the TCP session up 
> and down.

Even with my very high-level understanding of LISP, this makes sense to me. 
I'll leave it to you as to whether you add a clarifying statement regarding the 
permanent EID.

Thanks,
Acee



>  Thanks,
> Marc
>   From: Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 16, 2024 at 1:18 PM
> To: Acee Lindem <acee.i...@gmail.com>
> Cc: draft-ietf-lisp-name-encod...@ietf.org 
> <draft-ietf-lisp-name-encod...@ietf.org>, LISP mailing list list 
> <lisp@ietf.org>, rtgwg-...@ietf.org <rtgwg-...@ietf.org>, Routing Directorate 
> <rtg-...@ietf.org>, Marc Portoles Comeras (mportole) <mport...@cisco.com>, 
> Dino Farinacci <farina...@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Routing Directorate Last Call Review for "LISP Distinguished 
> Name Encoding" - draft-ietf-lisp-name-encoding-08
> > This exposes my only high-level knowledge of the protocol itself. Maybe add 
> > a reference to [RFC9301] here as well.
>
> I will add.
>
> >>
> >>> 2. In section 5, the final sentence fragment didn't parse and it
> >>>   wasn't obvious to me how to edit it - "As well as identifying
> >>>   the router name...".
> >>
> >> Fixed. Thanks.
> >>
> >>> 3. In section 9.2, The description of the onboarding process includes
> >>>   very specific details that aren't fully explained. Would it be
> >>>   possible to describe the use case at a higher level?
> >>
> >> This is some text from the cisco guys. I don't know how to change that. 
> >> They have the intellectual property on it.
> >
> > That’s fine with me then. It was just unclear to me how a DN would provide 
> > stability to the reliable transport session - would this allow the session 
> > to be recovered using a different UDP for?
>
> I don't know. I have copied Marc Portoles explicitly so he can comment.
>
> Thanks,
> Dino

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