Re: [lisp] RFC6830bis and multiprotocol support

[Dino Farinacci <[e-mail]>]

> 100% agree Dino. 
> 
> The proposed changes to RFC6830bis, as discussed so far, are: 
> - allocate the last reserved bit in RFC6830bis as a P-bit, 
> - use the last 8-bit of the first word as nonce, and 

I think you mean the Next Protocol field and not the nonce.

> - use 16 bits only to allocate nonce and versioning fields (when used). 
> 
> LISP-GPE will reflect the KK bits and will be bit-aligned with RFC6830bis (including NLEV bits). This will mean that the OAM bit in LISP-GPE will not be there anymore. 
> 
> What Frank is saying is that this will enable the IOAM use case with LISP, because IOAM doesn't actually use the OAM bit, but relies only on the Next Protocol field. 

Agree. Ack.

Dino