It is my personal opinion that most of these definitions are already well established in Internet parlance and therefore re-definitions are not warranted (or needed).
It is also my personal opinion that some of the recent postings could have been resolved by reference to well-established traditional architectural principals such as the IP Topology Hierarchy, which defines topology layers such as "autonomous systems" as well as routing concepts such as intra-domain and inter-domain. Coworkers who think as I do in terms of historic Internet constructs such as those articulated by Catenet, the ROAD Group, or NIMROD will probably think in terms of recursion and the possibility of creating complex structures within IP Topology Hierarchy layers. The power and beauty of this historic model when applied to the IP Topology Hierarchy framework is amazingly impressive. But that is the topic for another posting... The goal of this posting is solely to express my personal opinion that historic Internet concepts and traditional Internet terminology retain great value, power, and usefulness and should not easily be overlooked (or modified). _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
