I think it's okay to use the word in the context of how bgp uses the term
in a document about bgp.

donald

On Wed, Dec 2, 2015 at 11:57 AM, Paul Jakma <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Dec 2015, Paul Jakma wrote:
>
> +The BGP @acronym{MED, Multi_Exit_Discriminator} attribute is a
>> +non-transitive attribute, intended to allow one AS to indicate
>> preferences
>> +for ingress points to another AS.
>>
>
> +Unfortunately, this behaviour means MED can cause the order of preference
>> +over all the routes to become undefined.  That is, given routes A, B,
>> and C,
>> +if A is preferred to B, and B is preferred to C, a defined, transitive
>> order
>> +of preference should mean that A is preferred to C.
>>
>
> Sigh. I probably should make it clear that the transitive in the first
> relates to how BGP uses that term, and the second as to how maths uses it
> in the context of orders, shouldn't I? Or is that not too confusing?
>
> regards,
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