[ANCP] CAC vs. Admission Control in draft-ietf-ancp-mc-extensions

[Tom Taylor <[e-mail]>]

To clear up a misunderstanding that led to an AD comment, I propose to 
add the following definitions to the terminology section of the document:

<quote>

Within this document, the term "conditional access control (CAC)" refers 
to a procedure wherein a decision is made to allow or disallow a 
subscriber request for a new media flow based on the subscriber profile. 
"Admission control" is a separate procedure wherein the admission 
decision is based on the availability of bandwidth to serve the request. 
Both procedures are applied to make the final decision. The NAS controls 
which procedures are performed at the Access Node and which by itself 
based on the capabilities both devices support and the provisioning 
information it sends to the Access Node.

</quote>

Based on these definitions, some of the protocol elements in the 
document are misnamed. So far I have identified three cases:

-- Multicast Admission Control Message (which is sent from the
    AN to the NAS for grey-listed flows, hence is for CAC to start
    with)

-- White-List-CAC and MRepCtl-CAC TLVs, which are actually
    controlling whether the AN does admission control

Would it be OK to rename these, given that it doesn't affect the bits on 
the wire?

Of course, the first question is whether the proposed definitions are 
acceptable.

Tom Taylor