Re: Some Comments on ID/Loc Separation Proposals

[Erik Nordmark <Erik.Nordmark@sun.com>]

>    Endpoint
>    
>            refers to "the fundamental entity of and end-end
>            communication" [EID]. It is an end-system that participates
>            in an association. Endpoints are distinguished from
>            intermediate, infrastructure nodes and from hosts.

Dave,

Do you intentionally want the definition of endpoint to be open to
the endpoint being any of
 - (an instance of) the IP protocol processing on a node
 - a IP service access point (i.e. the point where the transport protocols
   attach to IP)
 - a transport service access point 
 - something higher up in the protocol stack

The reason I'm asking is because there are proposals that explore the
first three in the list. If you want to keep the definition open
to applying at different layers it would be good to make that very explicit
in the definition.

  Erik