Re: WG last call: draft-ietf-l3vpn-ppvpn-mcast-reqts-03

[Marshall Eubanks <marshall.eubanks at gmail.com>]

Hello;

On 1/18/06, Thomas Morin <thomas.morin at rd.francetelecom.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm happy to know that my english is not so bad. Thank you,
> Dave. :)
>

Your English is pretty impeccable.

> However, to make sure the draft is readable by anyone, I rephrased this
> part to a more direct expression : " [some of these applications may
> involve rapid changes in customer multicast memberships as seen by the
> PE, but this will depend on audience patterns and on] the number of
> provider equipments deployed close to VPN customers".
>

Fine by me.

Regards
Marshall

> Cheers,
>
> -Thomas
>
> Marshall Eubanks:
> > Well, a google on the "capillarity of carrier network" (without the
> > quotes) does return 653 hits, so Dave is correct in that it is used
> > that way at least some, and I appreciate the education.
> >
> > However, note that capillarity is not (in English) the "quality or
> > state of being capillary" but is simply a noun describing the
> > phenomenon itself,  so I do not regard the above as proper English
> > usage and I would recommend against its use in a standards document.
> >
> > Regards
> > Marshall
> >
> >
> > On 1/17/06, David Meyer <dmm at 1-4-5.net> wrote:
> > > > And, I have never seen  "capillarity" actually used in English. It's
> > > > in the dictionary, even in my spell checker, and it might be used in
> > > > botany, but it's not used metaphorically.
> > >
> > >
> > >         As I was mentioning to Marshall earlier, actually, the
> > >         term capillarity is in common use in the carrier industry
> > >         (usually used to describe the extent and density of a
> > >         carrier's transport network). As such, I don't find the
> > >         fact the google doesn't know that disqualifying, and
> > >         further, most of us who have worked in that side of the
> > >         industry consider it common usage.
> > >
> > >         Dave
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
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