Re: Comments on draft-nordmark-multi6-threats-01
marcelo bagnulo braun <[email protected]>
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El 11/06/2004, a las 1:39, Noel Chiappa escribió: >> From: "Fleischman, Eric" <[email protected]> > >>> identifier - an IP layer identifier for an IP layer endpoint >>> (stack name in [NSRG]). > >> I am bothered by this definition. The way I read it, it implies that >> an >> IP layer endpoint is the protocol stack. That is true of every >> protocol >> system that I know (including OSI) except for the Internet protocol >> suite. For the Internet protocol suite, the IP layer endpoint is a >> network interface. > > To start with, terminology nit - and lest you think terminology nits > are not > worthy of notice, let me yet again roll out one of my faourite > quotations: > > "I am far from thinking that nomenclature is a remedy for every > defect in > art or science: still I cannot but feel that confusion of terms > generally > springs from, and always leads to, confusion of ideas." > > -- John Louis Petit, "Architectural Studies in France", 1854 > i still think that sooner or later we will need a terminology draft so we all share the same definitions when we use certain words i know that this will probably imply long discussions about which words to use, though Regards, marcelo