Toerless,
I believe the closest we ever got to agreed definitions was in the
IRTF RFC 6115:
6. A "locator" is a structured topology-dependent name that is not
used for node identification and is not a path. Two related
meanings are current, depending on the class of things
I do not believe the community has an agreed definition of identifier or
locator. We do have some relatively common usage for locator. As far
as I know there is no fully acurate and written down definition even for
that.
Note also that while Dino likes LISP for lots of things (for good
reas
On Thu, Mar 03, 2022 at 09:28:23AM -0800, Dino Farinacci wrote:
> > of its address structure helps the underlay to locate the entity (xTR) that
> > the
> > address is assigned to (xTR). So the name 'locator' is 'just' a good
> > name for what LISP calls/uses the address for, not for how the under
