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 _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
