<div dir="ltr">i have this hazy feeling it might have originated in the port expander adventure but it might simply have been a way to test TCP/IP locally without actually leaving the computer.<div><br></div><div>v</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 20, 2017 at 5:29 PM, Brian E Carpenter <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com" target="_blank">brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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Over on <a href="mailto:ipv6@ietf.org">ipv6@ietf.org</a> we're discussing the issue of how to assign an address to a node without assigning it to a specific physical or tunnel interface. This is a minor gap in the IPv6 addressing architecture spec, but it creates a terminology issue in various other places.<br>
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The thread started with the following message, and has got surprisingly long:<br>
<a href="https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ipv6/U0QzAWpZTypF8gyZZ8HPfXZLOPM" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mailarchive.ietf.org/<wbr>arch/msg/ipv6/<wbr>U0QzAWpZTypF8gyZZ8HPfXZLOPM</a><br>
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So the question came up of when and where the term 'loopback interface' arose. Does anybody here have an answer for that?<br>
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Regards<br>
Brian Carpenter<br>
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