On May 17, 2010, at 11:39 AM, RJ Atkinson wrote: > (2) "The RG has rough consensus that separating identity from > location is desirable and technically feasible. However, > the RG does NOT have consensus on the best engineering > approach to such an identity/location split."
Personally, I don't think the RRG has a sufficient consensus on what the terms mean, which undermines any semblance of consensus on solutions. We are agree that a locator and an identifier aren't the same thing, and that a locator has something to do with routing. In some solutions, the locator gets us to an edge network, while in others it gets us to a LAN. Depending on the solution, an identifier identifies an edge network, a network layer interface, a system that has one or more network layer interfaces, a session, or an application. I think we all agree that since they are not the same it should be possible to separate them, but absent a consensus on what they are, I don't see how we ever come to an agreement on how to split them. _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
