Re: [TERNLI] Notes from tonight's ad hoc

[Mark Allman <[e-mail]>]

I am not quite sure if I agree with (or understand)  everything you
said, Joe.  But, ...

> IMO, the most interesting question is "why are you saying this", and
> "is this the right information to pass between these two layers". The
> network can't care that the modulation changed (that's a link/physical
> issue), but it can care about what that means (latency changed, error
> rate changed, etc.).

this is basically what I was trying to get at, but put much better.

I see it as somewhat of a balancing act.  We don't want to give
information that another layer just cannot do anything with, but we also
don't want to get too narrow or prescriptive either.

allman