Noel,
On 2009-01-16 18:46, Noel Chiappa wrote:
...
> There is no one-word description/term which _exactly_ describes a LISP EID;
> it's a bit of a kludge (precisely because of installed base issues). To be
> maximally precise, a LISP 'EID' is 'a globally-unique endpoint name with
> topological significance within a local scope only'.
I totally agree with that. My understanding of 'EID' has always
been that it has no topological significance at all, and indeed
that it identifies a stack rather than an interface. That's
where I'm quarrelling with the LISP usage.
It's a shame that draft-irtf-nsrg-report never made it.
Brian
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