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Re: [RAM] Re: Ramblings about "locator"

RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com> Thu, 14 June 2007 20:30 UTC

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From: RJ Atkinson <rja@extremenetworks.com>
Subject: Re: [RAM] Re: Ramblings about "locator"
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:30:35 -0400
To: Noel Chiappa <jnc@mercury.lcs.mit.edu>
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On  14 Jun 2007, at 15:30, Noel Chiappa wrote:
> I have a hard time figuring out what "locator" means
> to you all if you think a MAC address is a locator.

Noel,

	You were the person who persuaded me, after some
resistance on my part, that since the IEEE MAC address
is used in a lookup table (either a bridge table or an
IPv6 ND table) to forward the frame/packet, therefore
the MAC address must have location semantics and so
could not be a pure Identifier.

	Now, you've changed horses and are riding away
in the opposite direction.

	I am pretty confused at this point about what your
perspective is.  I gather your thinking has evolved since
this precise question last came up.

Cheers,

Ran


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