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. _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
