> From: Yoav Nir <ynir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> I live in the same house. My computer is connected to the same socket
> in the wall.
That's your physical location. Irrelevant (basically) ato the network.
> All I changed was the ISP. Why do we call the = thing that's changed
> "location"?
'Location' in the network-centric sense (i.e. 'where in the overall network's
connectivity map you are').
Is there a better term? (Not that we're likely to be able to switch to it
now, 'location' is too engrained, going back to RFC-1498, if not before.)
Noel