Howard,
> Could you clarify what you mean by name? I think of it as a
> persistent host identifier without topological significance.
Yep. And in the ideal word, this would be the ID used by
higher layers for purposes like transport connection establishment.
> It MAY
> map to a persistent ("static") address, or its mapping may change
> over time (rapidly in applications such as cellular).
Right.
...
> Another way I read this was that the host registers with a domain,
> which assigns it a prefix (where the low-order part of the address
> comes from is TBD).
Something like this would be required for a host to have
a topologically significant address
Alex
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