Re: GR/NSF Terminology
Acee Lindem <acee@redback.com> Tue, 04 February 2003 15:11 UTC
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Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2003 09:57:46 -0500
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Danny, et al, FWIW, draft-ietf-ospf-hitless-restart-06.txt now uses the term "graceful restart" rather than "hitless restart". I didn't change the draft name but once it is published as an RFC all remnants of "hitless" will be gone. Danny McPherson wrote: >>The OSPF document you cite defines various terms, but in an >>OSPF-specific fashion. Furthermore, the definitions are not >>collected anywhere in the document but are peppered throughout it... >>which is fine in context but doesn't lend itself to generic use of >>the terms. > > > Agreed. > > >>Seems like there are two things we could do: >> >>First, leave the documents as they are. This is my preferred >>alternative. The docs are relatively well advanced in terms of >>specification and even deployment, and doing what would be a >>non-trivial update solely for the purpose of aligning terminology >>strikes me a being work for work's sake. This is doubly true because >>a major terminology change creates the risk of introducing subtle >>errors to the spec if one isn't careful. Apart from aesthetics, what >>need do you think is fulfilled by aligning the specs? >> >>Alternately, if we do want to go ahead and change the specs, then a >>(generic) definitions document such as you have volunteered to write >>seems a necessity. I'm not a fan of "framework" documents and I hope >>we could keep the scope of the proposed definitions document focused. > > > OK, so folks don't seem to be to keen on the idea at this point. > Given that I'm not attached to the idea of more work "for the > sake of work" then I'll drop it. I believe there is room for > commonality but look where that's got me in PWE3 *8^/ > > > >>By the way, I think "graceful restart" has historic precedence over >>"hitless restart" if you want to align terms :-). > > > Agreed. > > -danny > > _______________________________________________ > routing-discussion mailing list > routing-discussion@ietf.org > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/routing-discussion > -- Acee _______________________________________________ routing-discussion mailing list routing-discussion@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/routing-discussion
- GR/NSF Terminology Danny McPherson
- Re: GR/NSF Terminology Danny McPherson
- Re: GR/NSF Terminology Acee Lindem
- Re: GR/NSF Terminology John G. Scudder
- Re: GR/NSF Terminology Magnus Danielson
- RE: GR/NSF Terminology Jeff Parker
- Re: GR/NSF Terminology Danny McPherson
- Re: GR/NSF Terminology Acee Lindem