On 3/18/14, Adrian Farrel <[email protected]> wrote: > Dhruv, > How right you are: a decision is needed and the WG should discuss it.
Agree, more discussions always good for WG. > > I suspect it will not help us to quote one draft or another, because we are > trying to converge on consensus from a variety of work-in-progress > documents. I think relating discussions and consensus to consistent documents is important for best progress. Any confusion between what we think/mean and what we document SHOULD be solved in our WG documents within thoes documents. > RFC 4655 has: > PCE: Path Computation Element. An entity (component, application, or > network node) that is capable of computing a network path or route > based on a network graph and applying computational constraints. > > The debate, I suppose, is about whether we stick with that definition, or > broaden it. We can stick to definition only if it is not confusing. > I would personally prefer to draw boxes around functional > components. That needs to be added maybe in the questioning drafts or unanswered issues. > Maybe I am splitting hairs, or maybe I am trying to ensure that new work > remains > consistent with the architecture without preventing any of the new work. > If architecture needs adjusting it is easier to adjust, and make consistent with new documents. So I think that Dhruv's suggestion may be closer to that. > In my opinion the use of terms in the new work has conflated what we > implement > and sell as a PCE (wonderful, glowing marketing term), and what the > functional > components are. This debate as one of the primary reasons why I started > draft-ietf-pce-questions, so I would clearly like to see it resolved. Is it ok to leave the marketing terms as it is, but we only adjust the terms' use and definitions, as Dhruv's suggested. However, documents should be without confusing/mismatch when describing implemented terms/technologies. Regards, AB _______________________________________________ Pce mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/pce
