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Re: [rrg] Terminology

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Thu, 04 February 2010 14:01 UTC

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Subject: Re: [rrg] Terminology
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On 2/4/10 2:33 PM, RJ Atkinson wrote:
> On 03  Feb 2010, at 18:50 , Noel Chiappa wrote:
>   
>> ...[the term CEE/CES] tells you whether one needs to modify hosts or not.
>>     
> I don't believe that is necessarily true.  Others seem to agree with me.
>
> If one means precisely that "host changes are required", then one ought to say 
> "host changes are required", rather than invent confusing new terminology.
>   

Precisely so.  Or, you could view it as a way to scare off those of us
who have day jobs.

Eliot

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