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Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming

Fernando Gont <fgont@si6networks.com> Sat, 07 September 2019 21:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: [spring] Question about IPv6 EH-insertion in draft-ietf-spring-srv6-network-programming
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On 7/9/19 15:53, Robert Raszuk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>     why do you use IPv6 addresses (IDs of global scope) to
>     identify the SR nodes?
> 
> 
> Well one valid reason would be to avoid need for yet another mapping
> table like LDP or SR-MPLS requires. 

If you care about overhead, that's an area that I would explore.


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