|> In present-day IP routing object label called the "IP |Address" is used |> both as the identifier, and as the location-specifying attribute. | |... if the routing-name has such a location-specifying attribute. I |suggest that 128.84.253.16 has no location-specifying attribute of its |own. It is only routing mechanisms that discover/provide |information on |where it might be. Granted there are some ways of constructing |routing-names that build location information into them (for use by |routing), but the current IP address is not one of them.
More semantics... A locator is simply a token assigned to a particular topological location. You are correct, the routing mechanisms discover and distribute that assignment. It is a correspondence to topology, not a specification of the topology. Are we done with the nits yet? Tony -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
