[rrg] ILNP Identifiers

[Scott Brim]

RJ Atkinson allegedly wrote:
> So I think it is important to have very crisp definitions all around
> (forwarding vs bridging; identity vs location, et cetera)  So I try
> to be consistent and precise with my use of terms.  However, other
> folks' mileage differs on some/all of these issues, as is true with
> many other issues discussed in the Routing RG.  I think we'd all be
> better off with some agreed upon crisp definitions for various terms,
> but past attempts to do that in this RG have not succeeded.

Just to follow up on this part ...

What you need crisp definitions for is how things are used, in protocols
acting on packets.  Therefore you could ask

  "Is this field in the packet an identifier or is it a locator"

but you've seen how get into discussion of whether something can be a
locator here but not there, and so on.  It's more useful to ask

  "Is this field in the packet used for identification?  Is it used by
  forwarding?"

You could answer "yes" and "yes" or "not in this scope".