Hi all,
For those of you that weren't able to join us today, the IAB has charged
us with defining some terminology to talk about routing. While we had
a long and spirited discussion today, we didn't get down to the task of
crafting specific text and we decided to continue this on the list.
Here are some straw man snippets to kick off the discussion. Note that
I'm taking these from definitions already proposed in
draft-irtf-rrg-recommendation-01. Apologies if I'm missing some
favorite subtlety.
locator A locator is a name that has topological sensitivity and
must change if the point of attachment changes.
identifier An identifier is the name of an endpoint. It has no
topological sensitivity. That is, the identifier will not
change, even if the endpoint changes its attachment within
the topology. Identifiers may have other properties, such
as the scope of their uniqueness (global or local) and the
probability of their uniqueness (absolute or statistical).
address An address is a name that is both a locator and an
identifier.
Comments?
Tony
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