> From: William Herrin <[email protected]>
> these definitions don't provide me with a useful language to talk about
> routing.
I agree - but the solution is not to warp these terms into meanings useful to
routing; rather, define some _more_ terms which are useful for that.
> In addition, the definition of address is demonstrably wrong.
> ...
> Counterexample #2: The IP address of an anycasted DNS service.
True. So change the definition to be "a name that is usually used", and in
the expanded text, mention that multicast, anycast, etc don't fit within that
last part of that definition.
There is simply no way to produce a definition which both i) completely and
accurately describes all the uses to which an IPvN address is currently put,
and ii) is short and crisp.
Noel
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