RE: "ROUTERS" vs. "routers"

[itojun@itojun.org (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino)]

	not sure on which mailing list we should continue this discussion.

> > The distinction between routers and hosts and the criteria to separate
> > between them is one which I perceive as having been well established
> > in Internet technology for a Long Time.
> 
> Well, how do you qualify a PC running a software component like
> Microsoft's "Internet Connection Sharing"? It appears as a host to the
> ISP, and acts as a router for the local network. That software has been
> available since at least 1998. 

	i guess you are using "host" to mean "being able to make TCP connection"
	here.  "host" in IPv6 spec refers to forwarding functionality, so
	XP with Internet Code Sharing would be a "router" under IPv6
	terminology.  it is not unusual for a router (device that foward packet)
	be able to make outgoing TCP connection.

itojun