On 27-mei-04, at 7:13, <john.loughney@nokia.com> wrote:
Could you clarify what you mean by user below? Is it what is
exposed to the application or something else. User can imply
human user, but I am not so sure about your meaning.
Yes, I mean the human user. I suppose there are some applications where
there are no user-visible names or addresses, but usually there is: the
FQDN part of an URL, the FQDN part of an email address, the FQDN used
in telnet/ftp/ssh, various server names/addresses... The interesting
part is that this is usually a character string that can either be a
simple hostname, an FQDN, a literal IPv4 address or a literal IPv6
address.