Re: [Teas] Moving forward with draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-slices

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Hi all, 

> Anyone else got anything to say on the topic?

I would simply use "customer" and make sure the definition is generic enough to denote a role/entity.  

Thanks.

Cheers,
Med

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : Teas [mailto:[e-mail]] De la part de Adrian Farrel
> Envoyé : mercredi 5 mai 2021 11:59
> À : 'Loa Andersson' <[e-mail]>; [e-mail]
> Objet : Re: [Teas] Moving forward with draft-ietf-teas-ietf-network-
> slices
> 
> Hi Loa,
> 
> > On customer vs. consumer Adrian says:
> >
> >>   c. "Consumer" vs "customer". I have made this consistent (we
> only need to
> >>        use one term). I selected "Customer" because that seemed
> best, but I
> >>        know some people prefer "consumer". Please discuss if you
> are not
> >>        happy.
> >
> > If the choice is between customer vs. consumer, I prefer customer.
> 
> OK. So I made an improvement, but...
> 
> > I don't know if it is too late to bring this up.
> 
> It's never too late to bring things up.
> 
> > But I really don't like either, normal language has a strong
> > indication that that that a customer is a person (a person that
> walks
> > inte to your
> > shop) and consumer is also a person /that eats what I bought at
> your shop).
> 
> I think you forget about wholesale. What do you call the school that
> buys food at the shop to provide to the children? Do you call the
> school the customer, or do you refer to the cook who buys the food as
> the customer? The contract is with the school, negotiated by the
> cook, signed by the bursar.
> 
> > IETF specifies "systems", including what goes into SW and HW, but
> we
> > don't specify normative rules for human behavior.
> >
> > I don't know if we can talk about Customer System?
> 
> I'm afraid of this getting heavy for the reader. There are 73
> instances of "customer" in the document, and "customer system" may
> become tiresome to read.
> 
> Anyone else got anything to say on the topic?
> 
> Cheers,
> Adrian
> 
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