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

[Spencer Dawkins at IETF <[e-mail]>]

Dear Fans of All Things Path-related,

On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 2:42 AM Jen Linkova <[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