Subject: Re: [RRG] Renumbering...

From: Dino Farinacci <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 17:09:32 -0700

> |So, what we are coming to is:
> |
> |A PI block is not an EID-prefix, but a EID-prefix is *typically* a PI
> |block. An EID-prefix is a PI block that can be aggregatable for
> |mapping database scalability.
>
>
> Let me try a clarification here:
> -------
> A PI block is not an EID-prefix, however a PI block may be effectively
> 'reused' as an EID-prefix.  This is to say that a set of code points  
> in the
> 'address' namespace have a 1-1 correspondence to a set of code  
> points in the
> EID namespace and that allocations in the EID namespace are always a
> superset of address allocations.
>
> However, a site that receives an explicitly allocated EID-prefix may  
> not
> reuse that EID-prefix as a PI block of addresses.
> -------
>
> Do we agree?

Agree. Now where is this text going to be put so there is a record of  
it and people can read and learn from it?

Dino

>
>
> Yours in semantic precision,
> Tony
>

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