На Wednesday 23 June 2010 12:05:01 Tony Li написа:
> 
> >> 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.
> > 
> > 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.
> 
> 
> Disagree.  Normally, privacy implies that others cannot observe.  In this 
> case, a locally administered identifier is readily apparent to all 
> correspondents.

"All correspondents" are only possible within the same administrative scope, 
because others cannot recognize the identifier.

Toni
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