[Nml-wg] DCN glossary

[Evangelos Chaniotakis]

Hi,

My opinion is that we're talking about slightly different things.

Path in the sense Freek defines it seems to represent a "finalized"  
object while the way John describes it is closer to an "unfinished"  
object that we would find in a service request.

I think both approaches have value, and are in fact very close but  
maybe we would like to  to differentiate between them?


On Jul 1, 2008, at 8:44 AM, John Vollbrecht wrote:

>
> On Jul 1, 2008, at 9:09 AM, Freek Dijkstra wrote:
>
>> John Vollbrecht wrote:
>>> Attached is a DCN glossary which is part of DCN architecture and
>>> DCN reservation documents.
>>
>> Thanks John!
>>
>>> path - a connection between a source and destination.  A path is a
>>> sequence of hops.
>>
>> I would argue that a path is a sequence of edges/links rather than
>> hops. That way I can distinguish between two links between the same
>> hops, and can more easily between different types of relations
>> between hops (link, cross connect, adaptation, de-adaptation)
>>
>
> I  think of a path a a sequence of hops because a requested path may
> contain some but not all intermediate hops, and hops may be domains
> rather than links.
> A strict path is a sequence of links.
>
> There may be multiple paths between hops but paths may be "potential"
> or requested as well as confirmed and strict.