Re: [lisp] LISP EID Block Size

[Dino Farinacci <[e-mail]>]

> And I think /16 is a good start. If LISP fails, the /16 will be usable again in 6 years. If it succeeds, IANA will have to hurry assigning the /12 block! ;-)

Renne, I am not picking on you but this language seems to be used by a lot of people. So you are just the latest messenger here. :-)

The language I am referring to is "... If LISP fails ..." with respect to what happens with this EID-block. 

We are not saying this entire block is being used for global deployment of LISP.  And no one is saying LISP can't succeed without this block. And no one is really refusing to return the block when LISP succeeds. 

We want to have a block that we can try to do different forwarding decisions on. Trying some new experiments with lookup and forwarding efficiencies. It does not mean that the current forwarding paradigm does not work or cannot work. 

We must not and will not require reassignment of addresses to use LISP. So as it has been said before, existing allocations and futures allocations can be EIDs. 

An address becomes an EID when it no longer is advertised by an edge BGP router (from a tail or stub portion of the Internet topology). 

Dino