On 16 sep 2008, at 17:40, Templin, Fred L wrote:
There still needs to be a box that takes an IPv6 packet and decides where that packet should go based on its destination address and therefore this box needs to run a protocol to learn which address prefixes go where.
Call that box a LISP ITR, e.g., and the decision of where the packet goes is based on resolving an IPv6 EID to an IPv4 RLOC. That is a mapping function; not routing function.
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