> It probably is, although the terms internal and external in this context > remind me of the way "internal" and "external" are used to describe > routes in an IGP. An IGP prefers its internal routes over equivalent > external routes because it discovered them itself, verses just being > told the external route and an arbitrary metric. > > Here is an alternative analogy - you can choose your friends > (organisations you communicate with by directly connecting with > (logically or physically) and trading GUPI /48 prefixes), you can't > choose you relatives (everybody else on the public Internet, for which > you use global addresses).
offhand, I like calling them "friends" and "relatives" - to me it conveys the right intiutive sense of what is going on. Keith -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPng Working Group Mailing List IPng Home Page: http://playground.sun.com/ipng FTP archive: ftp://playground.sun.com/pub/ipng Direct all administrative requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------