Quoting RFC2860 [Re: I-D Action:draft-azinger-scalable-addressing-00.txt]

[Tony Li]

Hi Gert,

>> Agreed.  Once again, we are trying to agree on an addressing 
>> architecture, not policy.
> 
> The statement "*you* get your own globally visible chunk of address space,
> and *you* don't" sounds very much like what we have in our policy documents.


Well, the significant distinction that we're trying to make is based on topology.  We leave the judgement calls to the policy makers, as that WOULD be policy.


> So maybe something could explain to the non-native speakers on this
> list what the distinction between "addressing architecture" and 
> "address policy" is.


Please see section 2.3 of our draft.

Regards,
Tony