Hi Dale,

On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 9:58 PM, Dale R. Worley <[email protected]> wrote:
> Liyizhou <[email protected]> writes:
>>    Hypervisor/Container: the logical collection of software, firmware
>>    and/or hardware that allows the creation and running of server or
>>    service appliance virtualization. tNVE is located on
>>    Hypervisor/Container. It is loosely used in this document to refer to
>>    the end device supporting the virtualization. For simplicity, we also
>>    use Hypervisor in this document to represent both hypervisor and
>>    container.
>>
>>  I think this would be clearer if the term you intend to use
>>  (hypervisor) was indexed and described as such.  You could also index
>>  "container" or "hypervisor/container" and point it to "hypervisor".
>>  (Better would be to use a generic word throughout and not overload a
>>  term which also has a use of much narrower scope, but it's late to
>>  make that change.  The use of "tenant system" is a good example of
>>  this style, as it doesn't carry much baggage about what *type* of
>>  tenant it is.  OTOH, "tenant system" isn't used consistently in the
>>  document.)
>>
>> [yz] That makes sense to me. I will change the text to
>>
>> Hypervisor: the logical collection of software, firmware  and/or
>> hardware that allows the creation and running of server or  service
>> appliance virtualization. tNVE is located on Hypervisor. It is loosely
>> used in this document to refer to the end device supporting the
>> virtualization. For simplicity, we also use Hypervisor in this
>> document to represent both hypervisor and container.
>
> I would favor "supervisor" over "hypervisor".  "Hypervisor" has come to
> have a specific meaning -- the control program of a virtual machine
> system -- whereas "supervisor", which used to be equivalent to
> "operating system", has more or less gone out of fashion.  So you can
> use "supervisor" with fewer implications for the relationship between
> the "supervisor" and the "tenant system".

I think we would like to stick with hypervisor. We do define it more
generally for this document. I think supervisor will confuse people as
so many tenant systems have a supervisor.

Thanks,
Donald
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> Dale

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