Re: Terminology [Re: Some Comments on ID/Loc Separation Proposals]

[Masataka Ohta <mohta@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>]

Noel;

> This is rather different from the case of the term "identifier", where
> clearly there have been people with very different assumptions as to what
> that term meant. So I would therefore suggest (based on prior bitter
> experience with the word "address") that any documents we create use some
> *new* term, and *not* "identifier", for whatever name we come up with that
> identifies the end-things (without giving their location).

What's wrong if the exsiting terminology of "idenfifier" identifies
exsisting terminology of "the end-things", that is, an end point or
an end system?

						Masataka Ohta