Technical Summary
Over the last few years, the use of IP addresses for Internet
connectivity has changed dramatically. The Name Space Research Group
(NSRG) was chartered by the IRTF to review these changes, and make
recommendations on whether or not remediation within the protocol
stack is necessary. This document reports the outcome of some of the
discussions within the research group.
One of the questions addressed by the NSRG is: Does the TCP/IP
protocol suite need an additional level of naming above layer 3 but
below the application layer? There was no consensus on the answer.
This document reviews the motivation for an additional naming
mechanism, reviews related work, proposes a straw man "stack name" and
discusses the structure and use of those names.
Working Group Summary
The IRTF NSRG came to consensus on this document.
Protocol Quality
This document was reviewed by Russell Housley for the IESG.
RFC Editor Note
These editorial comments do not warrant further delay, but
the IESG wants to point them out to aid the RFC Editor in
preparing the final document.
- fails ID-nits: (no ToC, references not split). At least the latter
is pretty important to know at this stage, as some of those are
unpublished.
- typos:
s/questiones/questions/ (in the abstract)
s/Austien/Austein/ (in acknowledgements)
s/updateds/updates/ (in sect 2.1)
s/the draft/this memo/ (in sect 2.2) -- if that's the intent?
s/indirection/indirection./ in sect 2.3
s/draft-moskowitz-hip-arch-02.txt// in sect 2.3
s/a V4/an IPv4/ (in sect 3.2.1)
- general nits: (in many places) should probably use 'node'
instead of 'host'