The Locator/ID Separation Protocol
RFC 6830, “The Locator/ID Separation Protocol”, is an Experimental document published in January 2013 by D. Farinacci, V. Fuller, D. Meyer, D. Lewis. It has since been updated by RFC 8113. It has been obsoleted by RFC 9300, RFC 9301 — refer to the newer document for the authoritative version. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This document describes a network-layer-based protocol that enables separation of IP addresses into two new numbering spaces: Endpoint Identifiers (EIDs) and Routing Locators (RLOCs). No changes are required to either host protocol stacks or to the "core" of the Internet infrastructure. The Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) can be incrementally deployed, without a "flag day", and offers Traffic Engineering, multihoming, and mobility benefits to early adopters, even when there are relatively few LISP-capable sites.
Design and development of LISP was largely motivated by the problem statement produced by the October 2006 IAB Routing and Addressing Workshop. This document defines an Experimental Protocol for the Internet community.
What “Experimental” means
Describes a specification that is part of a research or development effort, published so the community can gain experience with it.
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- RFC 6829 Label Switched Path Ping for Pseudowire Forwarding Equivalence Classes Advertised over IPv6
- RFC 6831 The Locator/ID Separation Protocol for Multicast Environments
- RFC 6828 Content Splicing for RTP Sessions
- RFC 6832 Interworking between Locator/ID Separation Protocol and Non- LISP Sites
- RFC 6827 Automatically Switched Optical Network Routing for OSPFv2 Protocols
- RFC 6833 Locator/ID Separation Protocol Map-Server Interface
- RFC 6826 Multipoint LDP In-Band Signaling for Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths
- RFC 6834 Locator/ID Separation Protocol Map-Versioning