[Nml-wg] Definitions of "Adaptation", "AdaptationType" and "AdaptationService"

[Evangelos Chaniotakis]

Hi all, just one question inline

On Jan 27, 2010, at 4:02 AM, Freek Dijkstra wrote:

> Hello,
>
> As agreed on the last OGF, Jeroen and I have worked on the definitions
> of Adaptation, Adaptation Function and Adaptation Services.
>
> We propose four definitions to describe adaptation between network  
> layers:
>
> Definitions:
> * Layer: A collection of Ports with common Characteristic Information
> (Characteristic Information is defined in ITU-T G800; we envision
> sublayers to be a separate layer too, but this is really up to
> technology-specific extensions).

So to describe a Layer you have to describe all the Ports that the Layer
includes? How would we use that exactly? Will the tagged ethernet layer
(to name an example) include all the Ports in the topology that support
that functionality?