Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol

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Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) ( RFC   6830) is a "map-and-encapsulate" protocol which is developed by the Internet Engineering Task Force LISP Working Group. [1] The basic idea behind the separation is that the Internet architecture combines two functions, routing locators (where a client is attached to the network) and identifiers (who the client is) in one number space: the IP address. LISP supports the separation of the IPv4 and IPv6 address space following a network-based map-and-encapsulate scheme ( RFC   1955). In LISP, both identifiers and locators can be IP addresses or arbitrary elements like a set of GPS coordinates or a MAC address. [2]

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Historical origin

The Internet Architecture Board's October 2006 Routing and Addressing Workshop [3] renewed interest in the design of a scalable routing and addressing architecture for the Internet. Key issues driving this renewed interest include concerns about the scalability of the routing system and the impending exhaustion of IPv4 address space. Since the IAB workshop, several proposals have emerged that attempted to address the concerns expressed at the workshop. All of these proposals are based on a common concept: the separation of Locator and Identifier in the numbering of Internet devices, often termed the "Loc/ID split". [4]

Current Internet Protocol Architecture

The current namespace architecture used by the Internet Protocol uses IP addresses for two separate functions:

LISP

There are several advantages to decoupling Location and Identifier, and to LISP specifically. [5]

A recent discussion of several LISP use cases may be found in [6]

IETF has an active workgroup establishing standards for LISP. As of 2016, the LISP specifications are on the experimental track. The LISP workgroup started to move the core specifications onto the standards track in 2017 - as of June 2021 three revisions (for RFC 6830, RFC 6833, and 8113) are ready for publication as RFCs, but they await completion of work on a revision of RFC 6834 and the LISP Security Framework.

Terminology

The LISP mapping system

In the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol the network elements (routers) are responsible for looking up the mapping between end-point-identifiers (EID) and route locators (RLOC) and this process is invisible to the Internet end-hosts. [10] [11] The mappings are stored in a distributed database called the mapping system, which responds to the lookup queries. The LISP beta network initially used a BGP-based mapping system called LISP ALternative Topology (LISP+ALT), [12] but this has now been replaced by a DNS-like indexing system called DDT inspired from LISP-TREE. [13] The protocol design made it easy to plug in a new mapping system, when a different design proved to have benefits. Some proposals have already emerged and have been compared.

Implementations

LISP beta network

A testbed has been developed to gain real-life experience with LISP. Participants include Google, Facebook, NTT, Level3, InTouch N.V. and the Internet Systems Consortium. [23] As of January 2014, around 600 companies, universities, and individual contributors from 34 countries are involved. The geographical distribution of participating routers, and the prefixes they are responsible for, can be observed on the LISPmon project website (updated daily). The multi-company, LISP-community initiative LISP4.net/LISP6.net publishes relevant information about this beta network on http://www.lisp4.net/ and http://www.lisp6.net/. Since March 2020 the LISP Beta Network is not maintained anymore.

LISP-Lab consortium research network

The LISP-Lab project, [24] coordinated by UPMC/LIP6, aims at building a LISP network experimentation platform exclusively built using open source LISP nodes (OpenLISP) acting as ITR/ETR tunnelling routers, MS/MR mapping servers/resolvers, DDT root and Proxy ITR/ETR. Partners include two academic institutions (UPMC, TPT), two Cloud Networking SME (Alphalink, NSS), two network operators (Renater, Orange), two SMEs on Access/Edge Networking (Border 6, Ucopia) and one Internet eXchange Point (Rezopole). [25] The platform should be opened to external partners on 2014/2015 and is already interconnected to the LISP Beta Network with an OpenLISP DDT root. [26]

Future use of LISP

ICAO is considering Ground-Based LISP as a candidate technology for the next-generation Aeronautical Telecommunications Network (ATN). [27] The solution is under further development in part of the SESAR (Single European Sky ATM Research) FCI activities.

Other approaches

Several proposals for separating the two functions and allowing the Internet to scale better have been proposed, for instance GSE/8+8 as network based solution and SHIM6, HIP and ILNP as host based solutions.

See also

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References

  1. ↑ "Locator/ID Separation Protocol (lisp) Working Group".
  2. ↑ Farinacci, Dino; Meyer, David; Snijders, Job (9 July 2012). "LISP Canonical Address Format (LCAF)". Ietf Datatracker.
  3. ↑ "RFC4984 - Report from the IAB Workshop on Routing and Addressing" . Retrieved 2010-10-28.
  4. ↑ Lewis, Darrel (26 January 2009). "IETF I-D Architectural Implications of Locator/ID Separation". Ietf Datatracker.
  5. ↑ "IETF I-D draft-brim-lisp-analysis". Ietf Datatracker. 10 March 2008. Retrieved 2010-10-28.
  6. ↑ Saucez, Damien ; Iannone, Luigi ; Bonaventure, Olivier ; Farinacci, Dino, Designing a Deployable Future Internet: the Locator/Identifier Separation Protocol (LISP) case IEEE Internet Computing, December 2012.
  7. ↑ Lewis, Darrel; Meyer, David; Farinacci, Dino; Fuller, Vince (January 2013). "Interworking LISP with IPv4 and IPv6". Ietf Datatracker.
  8. ↑ Lewis, Darrel; Meyer, David; Farinacci, Dino; Fuller, Vince (January 2013). "Interworking LISP with IPv4 and IPv6". Ietf Datatracker.
  9. ↑ Ermagan, Vina; Farinacci, Dino; Lewis, Darrel; Skriver, Jesper; Maino, Fabio; White, Chris. "NAT traversal for LISP". IETF.
  10. ↑ IPJ article about LISP
  11. ↑ Scaling the Internet with LISP Archived 2010-03-15 at the Wayback Machine tutorial
  12. ↑ Fuller, Vince; Farinacci, Dino; Meyer, David; Lewis, Darrel (January 2013). "LISP Alternative Topology (LISP+ALT)". Ietf Datatracker.
  13. ↑ Jakab, Lorand; Cabellos-Aparicio, Albert; Coras, Florin; Saucez, Damien; Bonaventure, Olivier (2010). "LISP-TREE: A DNS Hierarchy to Support the LISP Mapping System". IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications. 28 (8): 1332–1343. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.716.8421 . doi:10.1109/JSAC.2010.101011. S2CID   16828730.
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  15. ↑ Open LISP control-plane project: https://github.com/lip6-lisp/control-plane
  16. ↑ Research activities on LISP at LIP6: http://www.lisp.ipv6.lip6.fr (webserver hosted behind the LISP Beta Network)
  17. ↑ "IETF I-D draft-meyer-lisp-mn". Ietf Datatracker. Retrieved 2011-09-13.
  18. ↑ "ONOS-LISP-Management-Plane". GitHub . 14 January 2019.
  19. ↑ "Onos/Protocols/Lisp at master · opennetworkinglab/Onos". GitHub .
  20. ↑ "Farinacci/Lispers.net". GitHub . 10 November 2021.
  21. ↑ "Project Proposals/Overlay Network Engine - fd.io".
  22. ↑ "JLisp/Jlisp". GitHub . 28 January 2019.
  23. ↑ "LISP Site Status" . Retrieved 2010-10-28.
  24. ↑ LISP-Lab project website: http://www.lisp-lab.org Archived 2019-05-08 at the Wayback Machine
  25. ↑ More information on Archived 2019-05-08 at the Wayback Machine .
  26. ↑ DDT root website
  27. ↑ Haindl, Bernhard; Lindner, Manfred; Rahman, Reshad; Portoles-Comeras, Marc; Moreno, Victor; Maino, Fabio (30 October 2017). "Ground-Based LISP for the Aeronautical Telecommunications Network". IETF. Retrieved 2018-03-06.
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