Re: Comments on draft-nordmark-multi6-threats-01

marcelo bagnulo braun <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.multi6
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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
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