Lou,

Do you see the terms "Controller" or "Orchestrator" standing up to David
Black's "BGP" litmus test?

 - Larry

On 4/9/13 3:18 PM, "Lou Berger" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>On 4/8/2013 9:12 PM, Larry Kreeger (kreeger) wrote:
>> At the NVO3 WG meeting in Orlando, I brought up some suggestions for
>> terminology changes/additions and had an AI to bring this to the listŠso
>> here goes.  I would prefer to see constructive suggestions in responses.
>>  In other words, please suggest something better if you object to these.
>> 
>> 1) Oracle -> Information Mapping Authority
>> 
>> Stewart mentioned that he has copyright concerns with using the term
>> "oracle", and others have expressed distaste as well.
>>  In draft-kreeger-nvo3-hypervisor-nve-cp-01 we replaced the term with
>> "Information Mapping Authority" (IMA).  We would like to get consensus
>> on using this new term in all WG documents going forward.  In the
>> meeting Linda  expressed a concern that IMA might get confused with IMA
>> being confused with the acronym for Inverse Multiplexing for ATM, and
>> suggested something like "Directory Service" to which David Black
>> replied that she might have trouble convincing people that BGP can be
>> categorized as a "Directory Service".
>> 
>
>Perhaps we're over thinking this one.  We have NVE, so why not
>NV Controller (NVC) or NV Orchestrator (NVO)?
>
>Lou
>
>>...

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