Few suggestions:

AVB uses end-stations and relays, as well as initiator/responder as the
context maybe, like:

 - PTP End Instance: The AVB talkers and listener end-stations. It may also
be a GM.

- PTP Relay Instance: Could be inside a bridge, a router, or a multiport
end-station.

- PTP .1AS initiator: The node that has initiated the Peer-to-Peer delay
mechanism.

- PTP .1AS responder: The peer-node that is responding to the P2P delay
request.

 And Source/Sink or Client/Server may also be ok, in the documentation. The
master/slave etc will have to be replaced in the IEEE 1588 and GM etc all
the way to ITU-T telecom standards.


The term, “slave” has the negative connotations, rather a “follower” that
chooses its leader or role-model (GM -> RM) and looks-up to follow its
lead. Anyways, even in the IEEE standard (like Richard mentioned), a master
is not employing slaves, instead, it is the follower that is "choosing" who
it needs to consider a leader and subsequently follow it, so in our
conversations, we are starting to use these terminologies instead.

Regards,
Jagmeet

On Wed, Aug 19, 2020 at 3:26 AM Richard Cochran <richardcoch...@gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020 at 02:51:26PM -0700, Jacob Keller wrote:
> > Yep, makes sense. Long term, after changing the stuff which doesn't
> > impact config, we can work towards finding a way to deprecate and rename
> > config options in a way that won't break existing deployment. I'm
> > personally Ok with simply leaving the original name as a deprecated
> > alternative name with an explanation.
>
> That is what I was thinking, too.
>
> Thanks,
> Richard
>
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