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Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com> Thu, 02 January 2020 21:10 UTC

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From: Keith Moore <moore@network-heretics.com>
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On 1/2/20 3:48 PM, Dave Crocker wrote:

> On 1/2/2020 12:30 PM, Keith Moore wrote:
>> But we're not always clear about when we're talking about an 
>> abstraction, vs. when we're using one of these terms to talk about an 
>> implementation or a service.
>
> The established terms are actually rather precise and refer to the 
> networking abstraction, not an implementation.

Good luck trying to get everyone to use these or any other terms, in 
exactly the way you want them to use them, on any particular occasion.

As far as I can tell, people use words imprecisely, and to mean slightly 
different things in different contexts, because it's so often useful or 
necessary for them to do so.  There's nothing new or odd about this.

Keith

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