How about slightly modifying the definition of address to indicate that an address is, by default, a locator? It can be treated as an identitier when it goes into network protocols of layer 4 and above.
Ved Kafle -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Li Sent: Wednesday, April 08, 2009 12:53 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [rrg] Consensus check: terminology Hi all, As the conversation has died down, I'm going to guess that we've converged. The consensus check can be found here: http://doodle.com/9sybb8dmk5phvp99 Please vote for or against these definitions: locator A locator is a name for a point of attachment within the topology at a given layer. Objects that change their point of attachment(s) will need to change their associated locator(s). By default, a locator refers to layer 3. It is also possible to have locators at other layers. Locators may have other properties, such as their scope (local or global (default)) and their lifetime (ephemeral or permanent (default)). identifier An identifier is the name of an object at a given layer; identifiers have no topological sensitivity, and do not have to change, even if the object changes its point(s) of attachment within the network topology. Identifiers may have other properties, such as the scope of their uniqueness (local or global (default)), the probability of their uniqueness (statistical or absolute (default)), and their lifetime (ephemeral or permanent (default)). address An address is a name that is used as both an interface locator and an endpoint identifier. Tony _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
