Re: Issue 29: Editorial comments from Tero

Jari Arkko <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.ietf.mobike
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[email protected] wrote:

>Tero Kivinen wrote:
>  
>
>>>1.3  Terminology
>>>
>>>   Path
>>>
>>>      A particular combination of source IP address and 
>>>      destination IPaddress (note: this definition does not 
>>>      consider the route taken by the packets in the network).
>>>      
>>>
>>Any reason why the draft-ietf-mobike-design-02.txt and this
>>document defined Path differently? The Path from the design
>>draft do include the route, the Path here matches the more or
>>less the (operantional) address pair in the design draft.
>>
>>I think we should try to keep them in sync.
>>    
>>
>
>The design document also uses the word "path" in senses that
>don't include the route taken by the packets (see e.g. the
>definition for "primary path").
>  
>

My feeling is that, for practical reasons, we should try to
get rid of the term path, unless we use it in the route-included
sense. There are too many people that will complain when
they will see their favorite term misused :-)

--Jari
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