RE: draft-ops-mumble-terminology-00.txt

[Francis Reichmeyer -NJ <FranR@iphighway.com>]

Hi Hugh,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hugh Mahon [mailto:mhugh@xpeditio.cnd.hp.com]
>
> (Please note that I 
> have no problem with Policy Decision Point as a name, but I 
> do dislike 
> explaining to each newcomer that it is not where decisions 
> are made in 
> a non-outsourcing scenario.)

Where do you tell them that decisions are made in the non-outsourcing
case? Maybe we can call *that* the Policy Decision Point. ;^)

> 
> Here's another term that could be used to replace both PDP and Policy 
> Consumer: Policy Processor.

This is why I didn't want to choose between PDP or Policy Consumer 
in the draft; I'm sure there are other candidates that could be
reationalized. I hope people bring all their favorites to the BOF
and we can choose from them there (or more likely on a mail list
after the meeting.)

I guess I have no strong objections to Policy Processor (except
maybe for the 'PP' acronym :^)

Thanks,
-Fran

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Hugh 
> 
> > Mark, Fran,
> > 
> > I'm having trouble with the terms "Policy Decision 
> Point/Policy Consumer"
> > and "Policy Enforcement Point/Policy Target". As I 
> understood it, and I
> > wasn't at the meeting in Chicago so correct me if I'm 
> wrong, this draft was
> > to have come up with a *single* set of terminology that we 
> could all start
> > using: but maybe your goal in this draft is a more general 
> commentary on how
> > different people use the different terminology (see e.g. 
> section 2.3). 
> > 
> > So my question is this: is "Policy Decision Point/Policy 
> Consumer" the new
> > term or is this offered as 2 synonyms "Policy Decision 
> Point" and "Policy
> > Consumer"? If the former then I think it is rather a long 
> and clumsy term,
> > if the latter then I say: let's pick one.
> > 
> > Andrew
>