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

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

Joel,

On 16/11/2012 16:00, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
...
> With regard to interworking and deployment, there are a number of
> documents that deal with that.  They discuss what the currently
> understood deployment incentives are, and what paths are currently seen.
>   (As Noel noted, this is an experiment, and one should expect that the
> actual path will be different from the expectation.)  Given that
> interworkng dives are data plane devices, altruism is clearly not a
> sufficient incentive to get this to scale, and the models do not depend
> upon that.

My concern with this allocation request was not about scaling
but about black holes. What are the incentives for operators not
very interested in LISP to carry the routes that make it work?
That's the root of many of the problems with 6to4 (and, I think,
many of the problems of the MBONE, for those with long memories).

Regards
    Brian