Re: Summary of LMP implementation/deployment reports

[Yakov Rekhter <yakov@juniper.net>]

Carmine,

> Kireeti, Dimitri,
> 
> I realize that Section 5 in draft-ietf-ccamp-lmp-05.txt states that the 
> Link Connectivity Verification procedure (which is optional) may be used 
> to dynamically learn the id associations.  Is this what you mean by LMP 
> being able to *build* the mappings?  However this requires that an 
> operator *PROVISION* for each and every data link the remote node 
> address that the data link is terminated on.  Only with this 
> provisioning will the local node know the address to send the 
> BeginVerify message to.   So LMP can *build* the mappings (i.e., reduce 
> operator provisioning) if the operator has previously provisioned the 
> remote node addresses for each and every data link.  Doesn't seem like a 
> useful capability.

Then don't implement it.

Yakov.

P.S. There's only one way to determine whether it is a useful capability
or not, and debate on this mailing list is not the way.