Re: [re-ECN] Name for BoF?

["Ingemar Johansson S" <[e-mail]>]

Probably my last effort

Transport with accountabiliy = Trac
Transport with congestion visiblity = Travis or Tracvis
  Not the Travis guy in "Taxi driver", of course he also wanted to clean up

Not that good but maybe it gives other ideas.

  

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bob Briscoe [mailto:[e-mail]] 
> Sent: den 8 september 2009 10:03
> To: re-ECN unIETF list
> Cc: João Taveira Araújo; Soo-Hyun Choi; Ingemar Johansson S
> Subject: Re: [re-ECN] Name for BoF?
> 
> Folks,
> 
> More views welcome?
> 
> Summary of 'votes' so far...
> 
> At 00:08 08/09/2009, João Taveira Araújo wrote:
> >Bob Briscoe wrote:
> >>Folks,
> >>
> >>One important issue I never raised - the name.
> >>
> >>Congestion Exposure
> >>Congestion Visibility
> >>Congestion Transparency
> 
> Congestion Exposure seems to get everyone's approval
> 
> 
> >>And a short form:
> >>CEX?
> >>re-ECN?
> 
> Everyone agrees on what it shouldn't be: Not re-ECN Less 
> agreement on a replacement:
> 
>          CEX
>          ConEx
>          re-con
> Also, one vote for "Wait until later."
> 
> 
> I'm not so keen on including "Con" for obvious reasons :) 
> Choosing something like that can come back and bite you.
> It also sounds somehow as much like config as congestion.
> 
> Some time ago, Toby came up with a clever one:
>          C-IT (pron. "See it") for Congestion Information 
> Transparency.
> not so useful if we're not calling it transparency tho.
> 
> Hey, I've just had a thought, the flag (or
> codepoint) for rest-of-path congestion could be called CEX 
> (Congestion Expected), rather ambiguous with ECN's 
> "Congestion Experienced (CE)" tho.
> 
> 
> Bob
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________________________________________
> Bob Briscoe,               Networks Research Centre, BT Research 
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