_All_ operators? Then let's use something that is given to us as the objective reality - serial and property numbers of boxes and interfaces. This way no operator will be confused by some accidental peculiarities of other operators' internal designs and these numbers are usually composed of alphanumeric characters. An unambiguous location information (USPS-style) should be included in the names too. The only problem will be to fit this all into the constraints of the DNS, but it's not a really big problem, as we can fix RFCs here too. An alternative decision might be to have a global registry of all the boxes and interfaces and use tools like Eric Wassenaar's traceroute that pull up all the needed information from this registry. :-) Dima Merry Christmas to all the Eastern Orthodox believers Peter Lothberg writes:
So how do we name internal links in a way that is usefull for all operators, and conforms to the A-Z 0-9 and "-" and can be proposed as an RFC?
--Peter