Re: [lisp] Capabilities Type LCAF - a proposal

Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com> Wed, 20 November 2013 19:16 UTC

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>> From: Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com>
> 
>> There is no need for a new message. That would complicate matters and
>> create more combinations to deal with when receiving responses.
> 
> Huh? Less complication than a(nother) wart on Map-Request/Map-Replies? I fail

There is no wart because consensus appears that we should not do Capability negotiation.

> to see why a new (clean) packet-type would be any extra complexity. (My take
> is that it's only illusory that re-using Map-Request/Map-Replies would be
> less complexity.)
> 
> Sure, if the was the _only_ thing we were going to add, maybe we could tack
> it onto the side of Map-Request/Map-Replies - but when you take into account
> that we have a bunch of other things we'd like to do...

That is entirely different. So what are you thinking we need to add that requires another message type?

Dino

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