RFC 9962: A Decentralized Locator/ID Separation Protocol Mapping System (LISP-Decent)
In plain English — editorial summary, not part of the RFC
This document describes how the Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP) Mapping System can be distributed for scale and decentralized for management, while maintaining trust among data plane nodes. This is an Informational RFC and should be used by LISP-Decent implementations to interoperate with each other.
Document record
- Document ID
- RFC9962
- Published
- May 2026
- Authors
- D. Farinacci; C. Cantrell
- Status
- INFORMATIONAL
- Stream
- INDEPENDENT
- Area
- —
- Pages
- 15
- Also known as
- —
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