"Michael" == Michael Menth
<menth(_at_)informatik(_dot_)uni-wuerzburg(_dot_)de> writes:
Michael> The sentence "who you are" is rather confusing to me
Michael> although its intention is certainly to be a simple and
Michael> catchy explanation. However, "you" - the user (?) is
Michael> probably not an edge interface designator. "who you are"
Michael> suggests that the identifier has something to do with the
Michael> identity of some device or its owner (whoever "you" is)
Michael> that would stay the same when moving around which is
Michael> clearly not the case in this context.
Michael> Wouldn't it be clearer to say: core Routing Locators
Michael> (which describe "where" an edge network is attached to
Michael> the Internet core) and edge interface designators (which
Michael> describe to "which" interface a device is attached within
Michael> an edge network)? I find this easier to understand and
Michael> according to my understanding this is 100% in line with
Michael> the third paragraph of the charter.
the second paragraph is intended to be far more general than LISP and
carefully avoids using any LISP terms. I think it is accurate,
although the pronoun "you" is unbound. For LISP, it's an edge network
(in your vocabulary),a site in others' vocabulary, etc. For HIPP, you
is bound to a something. Some people would probably say stack,
although that's misleading as HIP explicitly supports stacks with
multiple HITs. For shim6, you is bound to something close to stack,
although it's a bit more complicated than that.
The second paragraph has not undergone a lot of editing other than to
remove LISP-specific terms from the general description. However, it
also has not drawn a lot of fire. If you do try to build consensus
behind a change, I strongly recommend against introducing new terms or
acronym expansions.
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