[lisp] draft-ietf-lisp-introduction-05 - EID/RLOC Syntax

[Ronald Bonica <[e-mail]>]

Folks,

Section 1 of draft-ietf-lisp-introduction-05 says:

"This document describes the LISP architecture, its main operational mechanisms as its design rationale.  It is important to note that this document does not specify or complement the LISP protocol.  The interested reader should refer to the main LISP specifications [RFC6830] and the complementary documents [RFC6831],[RFC6832], [RFC6833],[RFC6834],[RFC6835], [RFC6836] for the protocol specifications along with the LISP deployment guidelines [RFC7215]."

I interpret this as meaning that draft-ietf-lisp-introduction-05 MUST not contradict RFC 6830.

However, Section 1 of draft-ietf-lisp-introduction-05 also says:

"LISP creates two separate namespaces, EIDs (End-host IDentifiers) and RLOCs (Routing LOCators), both are -typically, but not limited to- syntactically identical to the current IPv4 and IPv6  addresses."

However, RFC 6830 says:

"An RLOC is an IPv4 [RFC0791] or IPv6  [RFC2460] address of an Egress Tunnel Router (ETR)."

It also says:

"An EID is a 32-bit (for IPv4) or 128-bit (for IPv6) value used in the source and destination address fields of the first (most inner) LISP header of a packet."

Given these statements, how can the RLOC or EID by syntactically different from an IPv4 or IPv6 address?

                                                                                              Ron Bonica