RE: Some Comments on ID/Loc Separation Proposals

[<Margaret.Wasserman@nokia.com>]

> From my perspective, we've been quite consistent with
> using locator for the topological naming for an interface, while
> an identifier is the name for a host.

Ahhh...  This pretty much answers my question (I think :-)).

In your taxonomy, the "ID" portion serves as a host/endpoint 
identifier and the "Locator" portion allows you to topologically 
locate a particular interface on the network, right?

If I understand correctly,  the 8+8/GSE world uses a different 
breakdown between ID and Locator...  The upper 8 bytes
are only a topological locator for a particular link (which
may have many attached interfaces), and the lower order 8 bytes 
are used to identify a particular interface on that link.

I consider this to be a fairly important architectural 
distinction, as the two models offer different levels of 
abstraction to ULPs.

Margaret