HI Ketan,

Thanks .

I am avaiable at the coffee break this morning.
Let me know if you have time.

Ciao

L.

> On 24 Jul 2025, at 17:58, Ketan Talaulikar <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Luigi, 
> 
> It does not since no changes have been made related to my DISCUSS comments. 
> 
> Please let me know if f2f discussion can help.
> 
> Thanks,
> Ketan
> 
> 
> On Wed, 23 Jul, 2025, 5:00 pm Luigi Iannone, <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> Hi Ketan,
>> 
>> A new revision of this document is now available 
>> https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/draft-ietf-lisp-geo-18
>> 
>> Can you tell us if it addresses you concerns?
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> Luigi
>> 
>>> On 17 Jun 2025, at 21:36, Dino Farinacci <[email protected] 
>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I have submitted -17, FYI.
>>> 
>>> Dino
>>> 
>>>> On Jun 17, 2025, at 5:55 AM, Ketan Talaulikar <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Dino,
>>>> 
>>>> Please check inline below for follow-up with KT2.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Fri, Jun 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM Dino Farinacci <[email protected] 
>>>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> KT> Looks like my comment was not clear. I am asking for a more detailed 
>>>>> specification of the mechanics that you are referring to in the 
>>>>> use-cases. Let us take an example:
>>>>> 
>>>>> This can aid in determining geographical distance when topological 
>>>>> distance is inaccurate or hidden.
>>>> 
>>>> You need geo distance when you may be testing for wireless signal range. 
>>>> Where topologically, at layer-2 or layer-3 is not relevant. We are also 
>>>> using geo-coordinates to locate things or to keep inventory of things.
>>>> 
>>>>> KT> How is this geographical distance exactly calculated? Any reference? 
>>>>> If not please specify. What is the unit of distance used? Does the 
>>>>> document propose to change the route calculation to shift from the 
>>>>> topological distance (coming from say underlying IGP?) to this 
>>>>> geographical distance now?
>>>> 
>>>> From a Geo-prefix, you build a sphere. If the geo-point is not inside of 
>>>> the sphere, you can determine something like "this device is not in San 
>>>> Francisco". So pick any point on the surface of the sphere and calculate 
>>>> the distance between the geo-point and any point on the sphere. To 
>>>> calculate distacne, see next paragraph.
>>>> 
>>>> When you want to know the distance between two points, there are geo 
>>>> libraries tht compute it based on roughly 100km going north and south 
>>>> (depending how close the points are to the equator) and same for longatude 
>>>> for east-west direction.
>>>> 
>>>> The unit distance is kilometers.
>>>> 
>>>> KT2> Let me take a step back. Getting Geo-Prefixes in EID and RLOC records 
>>>> looks to me as a protocol specification and not a use-case. Making map 
>>>> requests for these records and the map server returning the information 
>>>> (using physical distance) is also a protocol behavior specification - not 
>>>> a use-case. Therefore, I find all of this being under a "use-case" section 
>>>> as misleading and I am checking why this isn't covered as a specification 
>>>> - beyond just the encoding. Furthermore, "there are geo libraries that 
>>>> compute" does not seem to fully specify how this works - we'll need some 
>>>> references that point to how this calculation works or it can be specified 
>>>> inline. Are there any interoperability considerations here if different 
>>>> components of the LISP control plane were to interpret or compute these 
>>>> distances in a different way?
>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> COMMENT:
>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Please also find below some comments on this document:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Support of other DISCUSS positions:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> 1) I support Deb's DISCUSS position related to the reference to 
>>>>>> OSPF/ISIS/BGP
>>>>>> individual drafts that carry similar extensions. Those documents have 
>>>>>> expired
>>>>>> several years ago. None of them were adopted by their respective WGs -
>>>>>> presumably due to lack of interest by the community? The case for 
>>>>>> changing
>>>>>> existing LISP extensions for geo-coordinates (also an experimental 
>>>>>> RFC8060
>>>>>> section 4.3) for the (sole?) reason of bringing consistency across 
>>>>>> routing
>>>>>> protocols does not look sound to me. Were there any 
>>>>>> implementations/deployments
>>>>>> of the encoding of RFC8060 that necessitate this change?
>>>>> 
>>>>> I hope Deb can accept Med's comments so I made changes to reflect those.
>>>>> 
>>>>> KT> That text change looks good to me. However, the justification of 
>>>>> changing the encoding that was in RFC8060 is not captured in this 
>>>>> document and that is what I am looking for. The point of consistency with 
>>>>> other protocols is moot (IMHO) since they don't exist today and those 
>>>>> protocols might as well use RFC8060 encoding (if/when someone really 
>>>>> picks that up) if consistency is all that we need. I hope you get my 
>>>>> point.
>>>> 
>>>> It is beacuse we added more features to the encoding. Like cm granularity 
>>>> and radius to support Geo-Prefixes. ZSo the 8060 version is obsolete and 
>>>> hence we created a new code point in this document.
>>>> 
>>>> KT> Great. Could you please also add that as the reason for making the 
>>>> change over proposal in RFC 8060 (as opposed to the current consistency 
>>>> argument across routing protocols)?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Ketan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Dino
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>> 

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