Re: [RAM] Re: revised draft proposed definitions

On 06/11/2007 16:30 PM, Stephane Bortzmeyer allegedly wrote:
>> Locator:	An object that is used only for forwarding packets
>> 		or determining location, never for identification.
> 
> I was not able to find an example of a global locator, in the current
> IETF standards. Does anyone have an existing example?

If your objection is because of NAT, then I have to agree that you
cannot *know* if a locator is global in scope, although things work
better if they are.

>> Scoped Locator:	A locator that has non-global scope.  Note that
>> 		a scoped locator only has location semantics,
>> 		never identification semantics.
> 
> A MPLS label is a scoped locator. Am I right?

Connection-oriented packet switching is a very different sort of
beast.  I think we should restrict this discussion to connectionless.
 What a label does is it selects how the packet should be processed
next.

>> Identifier/Locator split:	A class of network protocol that
>> 		has no addresses, and only has (pure) identifiers
>> 		and (pure) locators.  Proposals in the GSE/8+8
>> 		class of solution might be examples of this,
>> 		depending on the details of the proposal.
> 
> HIP too, no?

Yes, HITs are identifiers (not identities :-p)

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