Re: mapping between entities and resources...

Bob Stewart <rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com> Wed, 14 April 1993 18:11 UTC

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From: Bob Stewart <rlstewart@eng.xyplex.com>
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In-Reply-To: Manu Kaycee's message of Wed, 14 Apr 93 11:51:18 EDT <9304141551.AA05507@psycho.andr.UB.com>
Subject: Re: mapping between entities and resources...

{Speaking as WG member rather than chair.}

Admitting that I haven't yet carefully read and considered the recent
contributions, I wonder if it isn't best to at least encourage "resource" to
mean something relatively physical, like an external port or an internal
network segment.  Given that model, I'd expect to have, say, a bridge and a
router share a port resource, rather than create multiple virtual port
resources in different shapes and colors just so we can appear to have one to
one mapping.

	Bob