Re: [Mipshop] Review of Transient Binding Spec

[Marco Liebsch <liebsch at nw.neclab.eu>]

Vijay, Rajeev,

just to avoid further comments after having changed this. You proposed

>But if you can find some better text, it would be great. One option 
would be
>rephrase "activating a transient BCE"  to "converting the transient 
BCE to active BCE"
>throughout the text. I leave it up to you.

"active BCE" is not a common term as well. But if you think this is 
sufficiently understood
we adopt this. We could also introduce the term "active BCE" as regular 
BCE according to
RFC5213. But then I don't see a big difference to introducing "activation"..

marco




Marco Liebsch wrote:
> Hi Vijay,
>
> ok, no problem, I can change this, even though we use the term 
> throughout the document.
> Will be in the update .
>
> marco
>
>
> Vijay Devarapalli schrieb:
> > Hi Marco,
> >
> > Marco Liebsch wrote:
> >
> > > > Section 2.2
> > > >
> > > >  o  Activation of a Transient Binding Cache Entry.  Initiates leaving
> > > >       the transient state of a Binding Cache Entry to become active.
> > > >
> > > > RKo> You mean Transient to Active transition? The word Activation 
> > > > is in
> > > > general confusing..
> > > >   
> > > The term has been introduced at the beginning and in the terms 
> > > section. If you know what's behind,
> > > it should be clear throughout the document. We prefer having a short 
> > > description of this state change
> > > rather than writing always about transition between state A and 
> > > state B... Did not receive complaints
> > > so far.
> >
> > I also found the term "activating a transient BCE" very confusing. It 
> > is hard to interpret it to mean that the transient BCE is becoming a 
> > normal BCE. But since you had this in the terminology section, I 
> > didn't complain. :)
> >
> > But if you can find some better text, it would be great. One option 
> > would be rephrase "activating a transient BCE"  to "converting the 
> > transient BCE to active BCE" throughout the text. I leave it up to you.
> >
> > Vijay