In einer eMail vom 13.05.2009 02:13:52 Westeuropäische Normalzeit schreibt [email protected]:
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." I perfectly agree."Nodes and endpoint are assigned locators" can also be read: "Nodes and endpoints are assigned attributes (eventually in addition ?! to identifiers ) which are locators. 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." I perfectly agree. However I would like to caution not to do the same kind of node aggregation once again as known from PNNI. (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'.) it sounds like TARA :-) Heiner
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