> From: Fred Baker <[email protected]>
> RFC 1992 would have it name a transport connection endpoint - the
> underbelly of an application.
Ah, no. To quote RFC-1992:
"A locator ... identifies a location in an internetwork. Nodes and endpoint
are assigned locators. Different nodes have necessarily different locators.
A node is assigned only one locator. Locators identify nodes and specify
*where* a node is in the network. Locators do *not* specify a path to the
node."
One also needs to be aware that in this document, "node" means 'network
region', not 'host/router', as it is commonly taken to mean in networking:
"A node represents a region of the physical network. The region of the
network represented by a node can be as large or as small as desired: a
node can represent a continent or a process running inside a host.
Moreover .. a region of the network can simultaneously be represented by
more than one node."
(In the next section of the document, "node" is very precisely defined to mean
'map element' - from the node/arc terminology of graph theory, since maps are
graphs - the above is just a 'starter definition'.)
Noel
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