> Thanks. Not contradicting what i claimed... I think. You think right.
> My point was specifically that the LISP locator helps LISP to "locate" another > xTR, but that is different from whether or not the locator by the nature Yes, where the EID is close to or the EID/RLOC are co-located in the same system. > of its address structure helps the underlay to locate the entity (xTR) that > the > address is assigned to (xTR). So the name 'locator' is 'just' a good > name for what LISP calls/uses the address for, not for how the under > itself would maybe call the address or use the address for. Well the locator you put in an outer header destination address is called/used/assign to whatever the rules of the underlay are. If the underlay is ethernet, then its a 6-byte address where the high-order 3 bytes is an organizational ID, just to cite an example. Dino _______________________________________________ Int-area mailing list Int-area@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/int-area
