Re: [Nml-wg] Network and domain abstractions

Freek Dijkstra wrote:

I do not see why it is necessary to know about the terminating device for links in the external view. It seems to me that all I need to know is the encoding of the link, the the capabilities of the domain ('network' in my terminology) to act on this link.

You need to know about the terminating device, otherwise you cannot find a path to it. We could of course go into hierchical addressing, but that opens up the whole naming-and-addressing can of worms. Jeroen. -- My email address has changed to <vdham@uva.nl> (The science has disappeared from my address, but I'm still doing it)