[rrg] [Int-area] Please respond: Questions from the IESG as towhether a WG forming BOF is necessary for LISP

Dino Farinacci dino at cisco.com
Wed Jan 28 17:19:06 PST 2009


> The approach in the current LISP draft still relies on ICMPs
> coming from anonymous network middleboxes (which Dino himself
> has said that we cannot depend on), and provides insufficient

I did not say that. I said you cannot depend on ICMP Unreachables. But  
ICMP TooBig and Time-Exceeded message are sent and are more  
dependable. That is, they can get lost when they are transmitted since  
they are single transmitted datagrams. But at least they are sent.

Dino


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