Re: [IPsec] HA/LS terminology

"Melinda Shore" <shore@arsc.edu> Tue, 23 March 2010 20:42 UTC

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Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 12:42:22 -0800
From: Melinda Shore <shore@arsc.edu>
To: Rodney Van Meter <rdv@sfc.wide.ad.jp>
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Subject: Re: [IPsec] HA/LS terminology
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On Tue, March 23, 2010 9:46 am, Rodney Van Meter wrote:
> I am *NOT* an expert on fault tolerance, but I have studied it a
> little (long ago, if not so far away), and I worked on Network
> Alchemy's fault tolerant implementation of an IPsec gateway (a decade
> ago, and a little farther away).  So, some suggestions on the
> terminology for the HA&LS draft.
[ ... ]

I think this is a really nice taxonomy and think it might be useful
to integrate it nearly as-is into the HA document.

Melinda