[Nsi-wg] vote on naming for Agents types

[John Vollbrecht]

My preference is for (2) Requestor agent, Service Agent.  I would be  
ok with (3) Requestor Agent, Granter Agent.

I am strongly against using (1) Provider Agent, for reasons I outlined  
in other emails and we talked about this morning.

John

On Dec 16, 2009, at 12:31 PM, Guy Roberts wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> On the latest NSI conference call we have been pondering a suitable  
> name for the two instances of an Agent that resides on either end of  
> a Network Service Interface.  Up to now the term ‘Requestor Agent’  
> has been used to identify the agent that originates the connection  
> request, and ‘Provider Agent’ for the agent that processes  
> (reserves, provisions etc) the request.  Objections have been raised  
> to this terminology based on the desire to break away from the old  
> use of ‘provider’ as used in ISP.
>
> We would like to hold a ballot in the NSI group for preferred name.   
> The following names have been suggested, please respond with an  
> email to me with the number of your preferred choice.
>
> 1.       Requestor Agent, Provider Agent
> 2.       Requestor Agent, Service Agent
> 3.       Requestor Agent, Granter Agent
> 4.       Requestor Agent, Implementer Agent
>
> Regards,
> Guy
>
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