Re: [Casm] New Version Notification for draft-kumar-requirements-and-framework-00.txt

[Brian E Carpenter <[e-mail]>]

On 09/02/2017 02:51, Xie Chongfeng wrote:
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> One of the basic requirments of centralized address management is that the mechanism shouled be aligned with the routing system, for instance, when one address block is allocated to an network equiment, the routing entry correspondent to this address block will be broadcasted accordingly, otherwise, the network will not work correctly.  Similarly,when one address block is withdrawl from an given network equipment, the routing entry will be withdrawl as well.  
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> Chongfeng Xie  

That is correct, but it doesn't need to be centralised. The route(s) to a
prefix are announced by the router(s) that handle that prefix, in every routing
protocol that I know. So that is intrinsically distributed. If prefix assignment
decisions are centralized or distributed, that doesn't change anything for
the router. Somebody gives it a prefix, that's all it cares about.

You can look at Homenet (RFC7788 and RFC7695) for a fully distributed model
of assignment. That probably doesn't meet the CASM requirements because it's
designed for operator-free networks. The Anima work is directed at enterprise
networks with a NOC.

    Brian