RE: draft-ops-mumble-terminology-00.txt

[Andrew Smith <andrew@extremenetworks.com>]

Mark,

Do you think that this "difficulty" influences the choice of terminology?

I certainly think the repository is *one* point of interoperability although
not the most interesting in the short term from my (and a lot of customers,
I think) point of view.

Andrew

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stevens, Mark [mailto:markstevens@lucent.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 1999 7:46 AM
> To: 'Andrew Smith'
> Cc: 'mumble@ops.ietf.org'
> Subject: RE: draft-ops-mumble-terminology-00.txt
> 
...
> I don't think that we spoke to it well in the document, but I 
> believe that
> one of the difficulties that we in each of the working groups 
> are facing is
> the fact that not everyone believes that a repository 
> containing expressions
> of policy can be the sole point of interoperability in a 
> policy system. Once
> we address this problem, I think that we will be better able 
> to develop a
> unified approach.
> 
> -Mark
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:	Andrew Smith [SMTP:andrew@extremenetworks.com]
> > Sent:	Tuesday, October 26, 1999 7:48 PM
> > To:	'Stevens, Mark'; Fran Reichmeyer (E-mail)
> > Cc:	mumble@ops.ietf.org
> > Subject:	RE: draft-ops-mumble-terminology-00.txt
> > 
> > Mark, Fran,
> > 
> > I'm having trouble with the terms "Policy Decision 
> Point/Policy Consumer"
> > and "Policy Enforcement Point/Policy Target". As I 
> understood it, and I
> > wasn't at the meeting in Chicago so correct me if I'm 
> wrong, this draft
> > was
> > to have come up with a *single* set of terminology that we 
> could all start
> > using: but maybe your goal in this draft is a more general 
> commentary on
> > how
> > different people use the different terminology (see e.g. 
> section 2.3). 
> > 
> > So my question is this: is "Policy Decision Point/Policy 
> Consumer" the new
> > term or is this offered as 2 synonyms "Policy Decision 
> Point" and "Policy
> > Consumer"? If the former then I think it is rather a long 
> and clumsy term,
> > if the latter then I say: let's pick one.
> > 
> > Andrew
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Stevens, Mark [mailto:markstevens@lucent.com]
> > > Sent: Friday, October 22, 1999 1:53 PM
> > > To: internet-drafts@ietf.org
> > > Cc: mumble@ops.ietf.org
> > > Subject: draft-ops-mumble-terminology-00.txt
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Please publish this document as an internet-draft. 
> > > 
> > > Thanks.
> > > 
> > > Fran Reichmeyer
> > > Mark Stevens
> > > 
> > > *******************************
> > > 
> > > 
> > > 
> > >      Internet Draft                                    
> > > Francis Reichmeyer
> > >      Expiration: March 2000                               
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> > >      File: draft-ops-mumble-terminology-00.txt         
> Mark Stevens
>