Re: [icnrg] I-D Action: draft-irtf-icnrg-mapme-02.txt

[Jordan Augé <[e-mail]>]

Hi everyone,

To follow up on the automated email sent yesterday following the update of the 
MAP-Me draft, we wanted to give you a quick overview of the changes.

Besides the usual tidying up of the document, the major change is a 
simplification of the retransmission mechanism ensuring the reliability of the 
update process. This consequently reduces the amount of information we store 
in the TFIB: we don't have anymore a timer per transmitted update but instead 
use a single timer to account for all FIB entries having pending updates.

This change is the result of the work we have been doing recently, to provide 
an efficient implemention of MAP-Me mechanisms in the VPP forwarder / hICN 
plugin.

We have also clarified the sections detailing face management in the 
forwarders, whose creation and deletion are the triggers for sending MAP-Me 
signaling. In particular, the previous version was only referring to 
synchronizing faces with Layer 2 changes, while the mechanism is in fact more 
generic when faces are built on top of IP adjacencies (as in hICN), tunnels 
(eg. UDP), etc.

As usual, we welcome any feedback you might have about the draft.

Cheers,
-- Jordan