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Re: [mpls] "Traffic Management" (was Re: Poll on renaming of EXP field)

Francois Le Faucheur IMAP <flefauch@cisco.com> Wed, 20 August 2008 08:29 UTC

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Subject: Re: [mpls] "Traffic Management" (was Re: Poll on renaming of EXP field)
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Hi George,

>
>
> WG Chair hat off:
>
> One of the problems here is that every term used in this general  
> space is
> already over-loaded.  Further the emphasis implied by a particular  
> term
> varies with context (and consequently with the reader's  
> background).  For
> instance the term Traffic Management has very strong connotations  
> for those
> involved in the ATM Forum.

ATM Traffic Management had to do with things like supporting  
different classes of traffic and providing congestion notification.  
That does not seem to be such a bad connotation.

Francois
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