On 28 feb 2008, at 23:39, Joe Touch wrote:

> It would be very useful to indicate when you're talking about a  
> device or the behavior of a device, i.e.:
>       host vs 'device acting as a host'

"a device acting as a" is implied.

> The reason is that routers often act as endpoints (for control  
> plane, e.g.); if we say "routers never do X", then a router acting  
> as an endpoint will never do it, which would be bad.

I'll see if further clarification is required in this area in the next  
version. However, I think I was fairly careful with router, node and  
host. Most of the time the distinction is just that routers send  
router advertisements and hosts listen for them.
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