W.R.T. to LISP, in defense of the IETF or the IRTF, i do not believe "the IETF" has told the world that LISP is the best fit for the Internet or solves any specific problem well.
The IETF has never said the "Internet Architecture" is going to LISP, and it likely will not / cannot. My expectation is that LISP will go away as quickly as it came.
i will not dispute this, not my point. but i have to respect dino and the lisp fanboys (and, yes, they are all boys) for actually *doing* something after 30 years of loc/id blah blah blah (as did hip). putting their, well dino's, code where their mouths were and going way out on a limb. i am *not* saying i would run it in an operational network. but maz-san and i were happy to help the experiment by dropping the first asian node in a test rack on the public net. randy