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Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) Tue, 07 August 2012 15:35 UTC

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    > From: Yoav Nir <ynir@checkpoint.com>

    > I live in the same house. My computer is connected to the same socket
    > in the wall.

That's your physical location. Irrelevant (basically) ato the network.

    > All I changed was the ISP. Why do we call the = thing that's changed
    > "location"?

'Location' in the network-centric sense (i.e. 'where in the overall network's
connectivity map you are').

Is there a better term? (Not that we're likely to be able to switch to it
now, 'location' is too engrained, going back to RFC-1498, if not before.)

	Noel

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