question on draft charter

[Rae McLellan <rae@research.bell-labs.com>]

In the current draft charter for the PSAMP working group,
Nick Duffield wrote:

    Network elements shall support several parallel packet samplers,
    each with independently configurable packet selectors, reports,
    report streams, and export.

Are you using "network element" to refer to a an entire IP router,
or individual linecards within an IP router?  Is each linecard
generating a single report stream and the sum of all linecards
within a network element creating the "independently configurable
packet selectors, reports, report streams, and export"?  Or are
you suggesting each linecard support multiple "parallel packet
samplers, each with independently configurable packet selectors,
reports, report streams, and export"?

The use of "shall" in your text makes me worry if its the latter.

				Rae McLellan


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