Re: [MULTIMOBSEC-API] api requirements

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Shinta Sugimoto wrote:

>> MB: i am not sure what does this sentence means here
>>
>>       ED is a "handle" or "pointer" to
>>       the actual EID.  A given ED serves as a AID [I-D.nordmark-multi6-
>>       noid].
>>
>> MB: i haven't read the noid draft recently, but afair and AID was just 
>> as a ULID not a ED... (at least no more than a shim ULID)
>
> I would leave definitions of ED to Miika.  Miika ?

I think I originally misinterpreted AID to be any application identifer. 
Please remove the latter sentence.

> from <draft-nordmark-multi6-noid-02.txt> Section 1.2:
>
>>       Application identifier (AID)
>>                   - an IP locator which has been selected for
>>                     communication with a peer to be used by the upper
>>                     layer protocol.  128 bits.  This is used for
>>                     pseudo-header checksum computation and connection
>>                     identification in the ULP.  Different sets of
>>                     communication to a host (e.g., different
>>                     connections) might use different AIDs in order to
>>                     enable load spreading.
>
> So, it sounds like notion of AID is similar to that of ULID in SHIM6
> as Marcelo pointed out.

The AID term is a little bit confusing from the viewpoint of EDs, because 
they are also "application identifiers" even though the pseudo-header 
checksum is not based on the ED.

Anyway, maybe we should have the AID term redundantly in the draft 
terminology.

-- 
Miika Komu              miika@iki.fi          http://www.iki.fi/miika/

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