[nm-wg] Specifying units

[Jeff W. Boote]

adrian cockcroft wrote:
> Utilization should be defined as busy time/total time, its dimensionless 
> or percent. Doesn't matter if its network or CPU or disk, thats the 
> standard definition of utilization.

You are right that this is somewhat confusing. We are using the term utilization 
as defined by the nmwg Hierarchy document:

http://www.gridforum.org/documents/GFD.23.pdf

See section 7.2.

Granted, this would probably be better named "utilized". In fact, from looking 
at several other documents (and even other places in this document) I would 
actually expect this to be called:

interface.bandwidth.utilized

jeff