Hi Bill,
Welcome back to the discussion. William Herrin wrote:
On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Tony Li <[email protected]> wrote:locator A locator is a name that has topological sensitivity and must change if the point of attachment changes.Hi Tony, That soft-sells it a little. A locator specifies an entity's current attachment within the network topology.
I'm missing the distinction.
Types of locators include: * Local Locator - a set of names and/or numbers which specifies the point of attachment of a host, interface or service within the network topology of the local administrative zone. * Remote Locator - a set of names and/or numbers which specifies the point of attachment of an administrative zone within the network topology of the Internet.
Yup, as others have noted, locators can have scope. I don't think we need to get into the variations and definitions of scope. Again, different proposals may have different requirements.
4. Tony's wife ... forbids Tony from touching her computer.
How did you guess? ;-) ;-) ;-)
Types of identifiers include: * Host identifier - a name or number expected to be attached to a specific computer for it's entire service life.
This goes towards adding the objects that Noel mentioned.
Finally, we should define (or at least clarify) two additional terms:
AFAIK, the request from the IAB is to define the three terms locator, identifier and address, so I'm trying to confine myself to those.
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