Re: What to call that direction/redirection/routing thing

[Barron Housel <housel@cisco.com>]

You're suggestion reminds me of the Corba term "request broker."  This is really
what the "(re)Direction System" is right?  In the interest of not wasting more time
on this, should we just settle on "redirection" for now and not rule out later
change -- since we're only in the genesis stage of this technology?

Barron

Fred Douglis wrote:

> > We like to use the word "rendezvous", since it does not seem to
> > have other implications in this space.  But it's not really a verb
> > (though you could get creative) and requires some tweaking your example
> > contexts:
> >
> >  a. "the system creates a rendezvous between the requestor and the surrogate"
> >  b. "a rendezvous agent decides which surrogate to use"
> >  c. "rendezvous is different from distribution"
> >
>
> The problem for me with this term and some of the others is that one isn't
> actually giving the final answer... one is just pointing in a direction that
> will eventually lead to the final answer.  From that standpoint, "steering" is
> actually pretty good, because it suggests a redirection that might be
> temporary (further redirected later) or final.  But it just doesn't sound
> right because it's not intuitive -- people can't read the term and understand
> it.
>
> Fred