I'd joint the camp to define
ID network/transport
locator NAP
This is because one host can have multiple NAP or interfaces. NAP is where a
host touches the network and so is to be used to locate/reach/route to the
host.
Also, I'd prefer to define
ID host
On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:21 AM, Joel M. Halpern <[email protected]>wrote:
> The note i was responding to stated that the ID named the NAP.
> If it had said that the locator named the NAP, then the only quibble would
> have been that some folks argue that the locator only needs to name the
> subnet / link on which the NAP is located.
>
> Yours,
> Joel
>
>
> Noel Chiappa wrote:
>
>> > From: "Joel M. Halpern" <[email protected]>
>>
>> > There is outstanding discussion as to whether this identifier is, or
>> > must be, or may be, the network attachment point, the network stack,
>> > the transport stack, or the application. I tend to be in the family
>> > that wants to name the network/transport stack. I tend to treat the
>> > cases whee the network attachment point needs to be named ... as a
>> > special case which can be treated as a stack associated with that
>> > entity.
>>
>> ??? I would have thought that the locator named the NAP?
>>
>> I mean, going by the usual way of analyzing the problem (i.e. considering
>> what
>> classes of objects needs names, and what the syntax and semantics of those
>> names ought to be), it would seem to me most economical to name one class
>> of
>> thing (network/transport stack) with a location-independent name, and the
>> other (NAP) with a location-dependent name... That way, both (important)
>> classes of things have names... and in each case, a name with the
>> semantics
>> most suited to the uses were are likely to put it to.
>>
>> Noel
>>
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