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	Title		: What's In A Name:Thoughts from the NSRG
	Author(s)	: E. Lear, R. Droms
	Filename	: draft-irtf-nsrg-report-08.txt
	Pages		: 22
	Date		: 2002-12-12
	
Over the last few years, the character of Internet connectivity has
changed dramatically.  A research group in the IRTF has been
chartered to review these changes, and make recommendations on
whether or not remediation within the protocol stack is necessary.
This document reports the outcome of some of the discussions within
the research group.
The key question we will consider is this: does the TCP/IP protocol
suite need an additional level of naming above layer 3 but below
the application layer?  In this document, we review the motivation
for an additional naming mechanism, review related work, propose a
strawman 'stack name' and discuss additional questions, such as the
structure and use of such names.
Although this document has a single author, the ideas described are
those of many people both within and outside of the IRTF (see the
References and Acknowledgements sections for more details).
However, others within the NSRG hold views that differ from those
presented in this document.

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