RE: [RRG] Long term clean-slate only for the RRG?

["Tony Li" <tony.li@tony.li>]

|> In present-day IP routing object label called the "IP 
|Address" is used 
|> both as the identifier, and as the location-specifying attribute.
|
|... if the routing-name has such a location-specifying attribute.  I 
|suggest that 128.84.253.16 has no location-specifying attribute of its 
|own.  It is only routing mechanisms that discover/provide 
|information on 
|where it might be.  Granted there are some ways of constructing 
|routing-names that build location information into them (for use by 
|routing), but the current IP address is not one of them.


More semantics...  A locator is simply a token assigned to a particular
topological location.  You are correct, the routing mechanisms discover and
distribute that assignment.  It is a correspondence to topology, not a
specification of the topology.

Are we done with the nits yet?

Tony


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