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Re: [lisp] LISP EID Block Size

Geoff Huston <gih902@gmail.com> Sun, 03 November 2013 23:34 UTC

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Subject: Re: [lisp] LISP EID Block Size
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On 3 Nov 2013, at 5:09 am, Dino Farinacci <farinacci@gmail.com> wrote:

> So it appears that:
> 
> (1) People are all for experimenting.
> (2) People may be all for allocating a block if it is not too large.
> 
> So would it be easier to swallow if we just request a /32 or smaller block. 
> 
> Are we just arguing over size?
> 

(speaking personally) Yes.


> If the experiment proves we need to do something in production, then we go get larger blocks as Joel indicates. And if the experiment is complete and say we don't need a well-known block, we return the /32.
> 


And that is something that I would be perfectly comfortable with.


Geoff

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