Re: [RAM] revised draft proposed definitions

[Tony Li <tli at cisco.com>]

>    Identifier: A binary quantity (not necessarily an IP Address) that
>    can be used by a Stack "A" to uniquely identify another Stack "B"
>    both for bilateral communication and for informing a third Stack  
> "C"
>    that it should communicate with Stack "B".  (Note that there is an
>    assumption in this definition that a Stack is the entity we require
>    to identify; in this era of virtualized servers with failover
>    capabilities, and of mobile clients, this seems to be a reasonable
>    assumption.)

Brian,

I have a minor quibble with this, in that it's really defining a  
stack identifier, not a generic identifier.

Any given proposal may choose to have identifiers at many levels  
(e.g. transport connection identifiers, interface identifiers, host  
identifiers, etc.) and the definition needs to either be sufficiently  
abstract so as to encompass all of these, or the term being defined  
needs to be qualified.

Tony

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