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Re: [RAM] Ramblings about "locator"

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Thu, 14 June 2007 13:18 UTC

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Marshall,

...
>> Maybe the essential point is that a locator can at least in
>> principle be mapped to topology and an identifier can't.
>>
> 
> If in Ethernet what is essentially a random number (the MAC address) 
> becomes
> a locator then maybe the distinction will never be crisp.

Well, that horrible thought crossed my mind. I think I disagree
with Jarno's comment, because as soon as an Ethernet address
gets into a spanning tree it has become a locator (at level 2).

     Brian

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