[zeromq-dev] RFC: "transport" vs. "endpoint" and orthogonal addressing

[Martin Sustrik]

Martin Lucina wrote:

> The other point I mentioned in my email ("transport" vs. "endpoint") came
> up while writing the LWN article - we need to call a 0MQ URI something so
> we decided on "endpoint". I'll be reviewing the 0MQ documentation shortly
> and would like to continue to use the term "endpoint" unless anyone has any
> better ideas?

I thing it makes sense. The terminology can go as follows:

tcp = transport
pgm = transport
ipc = transport
tcp://127.0.0.1:5555 = endpoint
pgm://eth0;224.0.0.1:33333 = endpoint
ipc:///tmp/mypipe = endpoint

Martin