Toni Stoev allegedly wrote on 07/19/2009 3:16 AM: > Nice chatting on the list. > > So what are identifiers?
http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/irtf/trac/wiki/RRGTerminology > Do they have any properties, like hierarchical structure, for example? Hierarchy is often discussed in fora for the specific identifiers under question. From the point of view of Routing, the question doesn't matter. > And by the way, from a routing point of view, do identifiers identify > nodes, or interfaces, or maybe links sometime in the future? All. > Session identification is important, but is it what we are decoupling > from IP addresses? Or is interface/host/node identification? The main problem is "addresses", which are used in both routing/forwarding and identification functions. We needed to get identification functions to stop using information that is topology-dependent (at least at some level). _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list [email protected] http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
