On Saturday 19 June 2010 at 02:41:23 Tony Li sent: > > > Does a locally unique identifier provide unique identity outside of its > > subnetwork? > > A locally unique identifier is unique only within its administrative scope. > That scope is NOT necessarily confined to a single subnetwork. In many > cases, that might be a site and may span many subnetworks. However, it is > also not global. > > Tony
So the locally unique identifier is actually a privately unique identifier. Its uniqueness is not confined by a location scope, but by an administrative one. And being not global means it is not public. Identity divides into public and private. Placement – to global/universal and local. Toni _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
