Yes, "router" and "host" are well-known terms. But they are legacy. Do we at all need them here? Whether a node forwards packets or not is a question of policy about path selection. So are we spending a term per each policy option? And are we researching forwarding issues, Tony?
RFC Toni On Friday 11 June 2010 at 05:39:11 Dae Young KIM sent: > How about call it 'relay' instead of 'forwarder'?: > > o Router: L3 relay > o Bridge: L2 relay > > And relays' job is executed with routing and forwarding. On Friday 11 June 2010 at 11:50:02 Paul Jakma sent: > E.g. obviously there may be nodes which are both hosts and routers; > also there may be hosts which perform logical routing functions, > without being involved in forwarding. _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
