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Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt> (LISP EID Block) to Informational RFC

Luigi Iannone <ggx@gigix.net> Thu, 15 November 2012 14:41 UTC

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Subject: Re: Last Call: <draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt> (LISP EID Block) to Informational RFC
From: Luigi Iannone <ggx@gigix.net>
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Hi Bert,

On 15 Nov. 2012, at 11:55 , Bert Wijnen (IETF) <bertietf@bwijnen.net> wrote:

[snip]
> 
> So it is not asking just a /16 but also asking for reservation of a /12.
> 
> Pretty big space.
> 
> And in the list of reasons, I mainly read that it is "sufficiently large",
> but not much about why it needs to be this big. Why would a smaller
> allocation not be sufficient?
> 

Well, to keep it short, the WG felt that /16 is the "right size", and that if the growth of LISP would be so important as to need a bigger space would be nice to have it contiguous (so implementations can just change the prefix length). 

Luigi

> Bert

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