Deployment prospects

The mass adoption of LISP as the Internet's preferred traffic routing technique remains highly uncertain. Current implementations are mainly the work of the academic community and serve as prototypes for experimentation on captive platforms or on a larger scale, using for example the resources of the LISP infrastructure deployed over the Internet. By definition, these implementations cannot be deployed in production networks. Commercial production of LISP connectivity services cannot therefore be envisaged in the short term.

In addition, the LISP protocol suffers from functional shortcomings that penalize the quality level associated with the connectivity service: the resolution time associated with the tree structure characteristic of a LISP mapping system can be extremely penalizing for the establishment of end-to-end communication, depending on the depth of the...