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RE: [RPRWG] Scheduling




Other option is to use word cancatenation like BestEffort.

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Devendra Tripathi
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of David V. James
> Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 5:40 PM
> To: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
> Cc: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [RPRWG] Scheduling
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> All,
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> I have seen a variety of emails, which share the opinion of the following:
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx]On
> Behalf Of Sushil Pandhi
> Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 2:03 PM
> To: William Dai
> Cc: stds-802-17@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [RPRWG] Scheduling
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> I think 3 priorities seem reasonable: 1) 1 for best effort, 2) 1 for
> guarnateed but non-SYNCH traffic and 3) 1 for SYNCH traffic and for RPR
> Network Control messages.
> -Sushil
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> I happend to agree with this conclusion.
> But, I would like to strive toward a common
> taxonomy (i.e. glossary) for these three classes.
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> As an editor, I like to have three distinct one-word names.
> Terms like "best effort" have the problem that they are hard
> to parse when included in sentences. I'll throw out a few
> ideas and ask if anyone has any better ideas:
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> synchronous - A class of provisioned traffic with guaranteed bandwidth and
> lowest latency.
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> asynchronous - A clsss of provisioned traffic with guaranteed
> bandwidth and
> bounded latency.
>
> residual - A class of traffic limited to consumption of unprovisioned or
> unused provisioned bandwidth. Note that RPR attempts to divide residual
> bandwidth fairly among nodes with queued residual traffic.
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> These names are not too bad, but I am a bit concerned that the term
> asynchronous applied to residual as well. Perhaps the terms should be:
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>   Provisioned synchronous
>   Provisioned asynchronous
>   Unprovisioned asynchronous
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> But, that seems to be a bit too verbose.
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> Any other ideas non naming?
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> DVJ
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