In einer eMail vom 12.07.2009 01:47:45 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt
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Heiner  -

How would map-and-encap schemes be incrementally deployable if  they
didn't use IP addresses for both address realms?  Even  translation-based
schemes need IP addresses as locators for backwards  compatibility.

- Christian



Let's put it differently: Incremental deployability requires still BGP  to
overcome the main function of BGP which is the non-scalable way to
disseminate all these hundred thousands of prefixes.
The methods are not new: Remember  BGP-based dissemination of MPLS-VPN
sites (just lacking the goal to build ONE SINGLE "internet-VPN") : here the
information are labels, i.e. not IP addresses. Also remember LISP's default
mapper. Issueing a prefix of length 0 might attract traffic destined  for a
node which doesn't propagate its traditional reachability prefixes anymore
but just new routing info for a new architecture, analogously to the
MPLS-labels.

Heiner



On Jul 11, 2009, [email protected] wrote:

> Sorry  Christian that I have a different opinion. At first, a locator,
> i.e. a  location information, must be routable (aggregatable is
>  something
> completely different) and, of course, it must be written  somewhere,
> e.g.
> into the field for destination IP  address,   and/or destination
> MAC-address and eventually,  for some transitional time, into a new
> additional header. Even LISP  authors emphasized that the locator
> addresses inside the LISP header  could potentially make up a new
> namespace. However it is the LISP  supporters' decision to use
> non-routable IP addresses instead, or  better said, the same
> IP-address-based routing technique which  produced and produces the
> scalability problem.
>
>  Heiner






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