From: "Fleischman, Eric" <eric.fleischman@boeing.com>
identifier - an IP layer identifier for an IP layer endpoint (stack name in [NSRG]).
I am bothered by this definition. The way I read it, it implies that an
IP layer endpoint is the protocol stack. That is true of every protocol
system that I know (including OSI) except for the Internet protocol
suite. For the Internet protocol suite, the IP layer endpoint is a
network interface.
To start with, terminology nit - and lest you think terminology nits are not
worthy of notice, let me yet again roll out one of my faourite quotations:
"I am far from thinking that nomenclature is a remedy for every defect in
art or science: still I cannot but feel that confusion of terms generally
springs from, and always leads to, confusion of ideas."
-- John Louis Petit, "Architectural Studies in France", 1854