Re: [PANRG] A ping, and a post-RG Last Call question (was: Re: RG Last Call: draft-irtf-panrg-path-properties)

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Hi Spencer, all,

> If we used the term "Path Segment", rather than Link, in our work, do people think


I’m not sure this is a good idea, especially that we define a path element as “Either a node or a link.”.



If you really need to point to a segment of a path, you may consider using “Subpath”.



Cheers,

Med

De : Panrg <[e-mail]> De la part de Spencer Dawkins at IETF
Envoyé : mardi 19 juillet 2022 16:34
À : Jen Linkova <[e-mail]>
Cc : [e-mail]; Theresa Enghardt <[e-mail]>; panrg-chairs <[e-mail]>; Krähenbühl Cyrill <[e-mail]>
Objet : [PANRG] A ping, and a post-RG Last Call question (was: Re: RG Last Call: draft-irtf-panrg-path-properties)

Dear Fans of All Things Path-related,

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 2:42 AM Jen Linkova <[e-mail]<mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
The RG Last Call for
https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-irtf-panrg-path-properties/ has
ended - thank you everyone who read the document and provided
feedback.

Reese, Cyrill - my understanding is that you are going to publish the
revised ID to address the comments.

I don't know if this is a useful question to ask, at this point in the approval process, so "not helpful, wontfix" would be a fine response, BUT

I would like to use PANRG terminology in a response to reviewer comments on  https://github.com/ietf-wg-mops/draft-ietf-mops-streaming-opcons/issues/179, and I don't think our use of "link" is as helpful as I wish it was.

I think our definition of Link is actually Mostly Fine,

A medium or communication facility that connects two or more nodes with each other. A link enables a node to send packets to other nodes. Links can be physical, e.g., a Wi-Fi network which connects an Access Point to stations, or virtual, e.g., a virtual switch which connects two virtual machines hosted on the same physical machine. A link is unidirectional. As such, bidirectional communication can be modeled as two links between the same nodes in opposite directions.

but the NAME seems unhelpful, because many people already know what a link is, and they may not all have the same understanding about that.

draft-irtf-panrg-path-properties knows what a Path is (duh), and knows what a Subpath is.

If we used the term "Path Segment", rather than Link, in our work, do people think

  *   That would be helpful?
  *   That would be wrong?
  *   That would be a fine thing to have brought up several years ago, but that ship has sailed?
I'm probably going to use the term Path Segment in the MOPS document I pointed to above, but wanted to ask about the terminology here.

Best, and I look forward to seeing you folks in real life next week (where Meetecho counts as "real life", for some of us),

Spencer

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