Re: [RRG] loc/id split and LISP

[Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>]

On 11-okt-2007, at 8:20, Dino Farinacci wrote:

> > > nHow about the contentious issue of 240.0.0.0/4, should it be  
> > > used as
> > > the TLA for the EID namespace for IPv4?

> > I think it actually makes more sense to use that space for LISP  
> > RLOC's. My
> > reasoning is that there are some issues with the use of that space  
> > in some
> > hosts, whereas if we use it for RLOC's, we only have to make sure  
> > that the
> > ITR's, ETR's, and intervening routers handle it properly.

> Then all ISPs have to renumber if we do that. And they would have  
> to ask/force their customers to renumber their ETRs.

This is important:

If we can't easily renumber ETRs then the entire effort is a waste of  
time, because we'll have to jack up again one or two decades from now.

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