On Tuesday 8 June 2010 at 17:10:55 Ran Atkinson sent: > Earlier today, Toni Stoev wrote: > % But the locator may actually be a path. > > Toni, > > No, a locator cannot name a specific path. > > By the basic definition of a Locator, > it names a place, not a path. > > That definition of the term "Locator" is broadly > accepted within this RG, across multiple proposals > (e.g. LISP, ILNP, and several others). I second Noel's > suggestion to re-read IEN-19. For that matter, > it would be helpful to re-read IEN-23 and IEN-1. > > Yours, > > Ran >
OK, locator names a place. The place is a node. The locator is formed as sequence of neighor IDs, each among the neighbors of the node with the preceding ID. This locator resembles a path but each component of it is a node-local ID, not a universal location name. So, the locator is to be used as hop-by-hop location pointer. > > PS: IEN-1 is only available in PDF, not in text/plain. > Please see this URL: > http://postel.org/ien/pdf/ien001.pdf > _______________________________________________ rrg mailing list rrg@irtf.org http://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/rrg
