[RAM] Re: revised draft proposed definitions

[Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer at nic.fr>]

On Mon, Jun 11, 2007 at 10:13:44AM -0400,
 RJ Atkinson <rja at extremenetworks.com> wrote 
 a message of 110 lines which said:

> 	Here is a revised draft proposal for terminology,

I understand better when there are examples so let me suggest some and
RAM people will tell me if I understood properly or if I'm completely
and hopelessly lost.

> Identifier:	An object that is used only for identification,
> 		never for forwarding packets or determining location.
> 
> 		Identifiers might exist at different protocol layers.
> 		For example, a fully-qualified domain name is one
> 		sort of Identifier. 

OK

> Locator:	An object that is used only for forwarding packets
> 		or determining location, never for identification.

I was not able to find an example of a global locator, in the current
IETF standards. Does anyone have an existing example?

> Scoped Locator:	A locator that has non-global scope.  Note that
> 		a scoped locator only has location semantics,
> 		never identification semantics.

A MPLS label is a scoped locator. Am I right?
 
> Scoped Identifier:  An identifier with non-global scope.  Note that
> 		a scoped identifier only has identity semantics,
> 		never location semantics.

A non-qualified domain name is OK for a scoped identifier? Or a Local
Scope Identifier (LSI) (RFC 4423)?
 
> Identifier/Locator split:	A class of network protocol that
> 		has no addresses, and only has (pure) identifiers
> 		and (pure) locators.  Proposals in the GSE/8+8
> 		class of solution might be examples of this,
> 		depending on the details of the proposal.

HIP too, no?

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