Re: [EME] EME charter

[Saikat Guha <[e-mail]>]

On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 06:10 +0000, Fergie wrote:
> Having said that, I would tend to think that endpoints can defined
> as the source (originator) & destination addresses in any IP
> packet.

What about IP source route where the destination keeps changing :-p

From the perspective of the IP, it makes sense to define the IP endpoint
as the source or destination of a datagram. This definition on its own
causes problems in the presence of mobility and multi-homing.

From a broader perspective, one potential definition 
may be: 
      the application instances that are trying to 
      communicate over the Internet. 

For example, a web browser and a web server are application instances
trying to communicate -- HTTP endpoints. The Internet enables these
endpoints to communicate by, under the hood, managing multiple IP
addresses, picking TCP or SCTP or other appropriate transports,
discovering and invoking in-network middlebox functionality such as NAT
and firewalls as directed by local network administrators, etc.

-- 
Saikat

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