Re: [lisp] LISP EID Block Size

Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com> Thu, 31 October 2013 23:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lisp] LISP EID Block Size
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> Make it a parameter of prefix/len.
> 
> And work the experiment in a /32

I could agree on both counts. And if you wanted to latch the /32 on a DNS name, then implementations could make use of the level of indirection to allow the prefix to change. 

Dino