LISP Canonical Address Format (LCAF)
draft-ietf-lisp-lcaf-04

Network Working Group                                       D. Farinacci
Internet-Draft                                               lispers.net
Intended status: Experimental                                   D. Meyer
Expires: July 31, 2014                                           Brocade
                                                             J. Snijders
                                                       Hibernia Networks
                                                        January 27, 2014

                  LISP Canonical Address Format (LCAF)
                        draft-ietf-lisp-lcaf-04

Abstract

   This draft defines a canonical address format encoding used in LISP
   control messages and in the encoding of lookup keys for the LISP
   Mapping Database System.

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Table of Contents

   1.  Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  3
   2.  Definition of Terms  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  4
   3.  LISP Canonical Address Format Encodings  . . . . . . . . . . .  5
   4.  LISP Canonical Address Applications  . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.1.  Segmentation using LISP  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  7
     4.2.  Carrying AS Numbers in the Mapping Database  . . . . . . .  8
     4.3.  Convey Application Specific Data . . . . . . . . . . . . .  9
     4.4.  Assigning Geo Coordinates to Locator Addresses . . . . . . 10
     4.5.  Generic Database Mapping Lookups . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
     4.6.  NAT Traversal Scenarios  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
     4.7.  PETR Admission Control Functionality . . . . . . . . . . . 15
     4.8.  Multicast Group Membership Information . . . . . . . . . . 16
     4.9.  Traffic Engineering using Re-encapsulating Tunnels . . . . 18
     4.10. Storing Security Data in the Mapping Database  . . . . . . 19
     4.11. Source/Destination 2-Tuple Lookups . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
     4.12. Replication List Entries for Multicast Forwarding  . . . . 21
     4.13. Data Model Encoding  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
     4.14. Encoding Key/Value Address Pairs . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
     4.15. Applications for AFI List Type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23
       4.15.1.  Binding IPv4 and IPv6 Addresses . . . . . . . . . . . 23
       4.15.2.  Layer-2 VPNs  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
       4.15.3.  ASCII Names in the Mapping Database . . . . . . . . . 25
       4.15.4.  Using Recursive LISP Canonical Address Encodings  . . 26
       4.15.5.  Compatibility Mode Use Case . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
   5.  Security Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
   6.  IANA Considerations  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
   7.  References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
     7.1.  Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
     7.2.  Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
   Appendix A.  Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
   Appendix B.  Document Change Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
     B.1.  Changes to draft-ietf-lisp-lcaf-04.txt . . . . . . . . . . 33
     B.2.  Changes to draft-ietf-lisp-lcaf-03.txt . . . . . . . . . . 33
     B.3.  Changes to draft-ietf-lisp-lcaf-02.txt . . . . . . . . . . 33