[Nml-wg] Network and domain abstractions

[Jeroen van der Ham]

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.

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