[rrg] Rejecting all but Strategy A
Dino Farinacci
dino at cisco.com
Mon Jan 5 09:44:24 PST 2009
> What comes to HIP and RRG, I do believe that HIP *could* help in
> solving the RRG problem. It *could* form a core for what people now
> call "Strategy B" solutions, and a HIP-proxy based solution *could*
> be deployed as a "Strategy A" solution. I don't know the details of
> LISP, but the recent discussion between Dino and me seem to indicate
> that HIP proxy and LISP xTRs are functionally close enough so that a
> HIP proxy could be "plugged in" to the LISP architecture, yielding a
> "Strategy A" HIP-based network-level solution that could eventually
> lead to full HIP deployment at all hosts, which *could* lead to an
> architecture where renumbering is never needed due to full
> transparent support of multiple IP addresses at all hosts.
And since I don't know the details of HIP-proxy, saying LISP and HIP-
proxy are functionally equivalent only occurs at a conversational
level. The devil is in the details of course.
Dino
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