Pascal, I would look at the text where 'legacy' is used and decide in each context whether this term can be avoided. I assume with a bit of text tweaking, the term can be avoided. But my issue was not the term itself but that it appeared in section 2 before it was defined in section 3 (which could perhaps be resolved by swapping sections 2 and 3).
/js On Thu, Feb 22, 2018 at 08:45:25AM +0000, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote: > Hello Jurgen and Carsten: > > I'm fine with an alternate. Any suggestion? Would, say, "original", work > better? > > Pascal > > -----Original Message----- > From: Carsten Bormann [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: mercredi 21 février 2018 19:38 > To: Juergen Schoenwaelder <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; > [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: Opsdir telechat review of draft-ietf-6lo-rfc6775-update-11 > > On Feb 21, 2018, at 10:07, Jürgen Schönwälder > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > - What is the 'legacy 6LoWPAN ND specification'? I found out later > > > legacy | ˈlɛɡəsi | > noun (plural legacies) > an amount of money or property left to someone in a will. > • a thing handed down by a predecessor: the legacy of centuries of > neglect. > adjective Computing > denoting or relating to software or hardware that has been superseded but > is difficult to replace because of its wide use. > > > The marketing term “legacy” is used a lot by people who want to sell you > their newest snake oil. > > If you find “legacy” in a technical document outside the above narrow > technical sense, this generally raises warning flags in people that have been > around for a while. > > Since the updated 6LoWPAN-ND is not snake oil, we should avoid sending this > signal of non-competence. > > (It appears here this is just about “previous version of the present > specification”.) > > Grüße, Carsten > > _______________________________________________ > 6lo mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lo -- Juergen Schoenwaelder Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH Phone: +49 421 200 3587 Campus Ring 1 | 28759 Bremen | Germany Fax: +49 421 200 3103 <https://www.jacobs-university.de/> _______________________________________________ 6lo mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/6lo
