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 =============================== Donald E. Eastlake 3rd +1-508-333-2270 (cell) 155 Beaver Street, Milford, MA 01757 USA [email protected] > Dale _______________________________________________ nvo3 mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nvo3
