Re: [RAM] Ramblings about "locator"

["Ved Kafle" <kafle at nict.go.jp>]

> Marshall,
> 
> ...
> >> Maybe the essential point is that a locator can at least in
> >> principle be mapped to topology and an identifier can't.
> >>
> > 
> > If in Ethernet what is essentially a random number (the MAC 
> address) 
> > becomes
> > a locator then maybe the distinction will never be crisp.
> 
> Well, that horrible thought crossed my mind. I think I disagree
> with Jarno's comment, because as soon as an Ethernet address
> gets into a spanning tree it has become a locator (at level 2).

So, the distinction between an identifier and a locator is dependent on
the avalaibility of routing/switching infrastructure. 
If networks possess routing/switching insfrastructure based on a
identifier namespace, the identifier simultaneously functions as a
locator. 

Ved

> 
>      Brian
> 



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