Re: Meta-comment: use of "red" / "black" terminology...

[Radia Perlman <Radia.Perlman@sun.com>]

I agree with Ted. Even though I know what the terms mean, I never could
remember which was red and which was black. It's unnecessary to introduce
new terms at this stage.

Radia

----- Original Message -----
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Date: Monday, November 10, 2003 10:27 am
Subject: Meta-comment: use of "red" / "black" terminology...

> 
> One comment which Barbara and I noticed in many of the 2401 issues is
> the use of the terms "red-side", "black-side", "red-to-black", etc.
> 
> To date these terms have not been used in the IPsec RFC's and I-
> D's, and
> I'd like to suggest that perhaps we should be careful not to introduce
> them.  The reasons for this is two-fold.  First of all, it introduces
> additional specialized lingo which may make the documents more 
> difficultto read.  Secondly, "red" and "black" primarily only makes 
> sense in the
> case of a security gateway, and do not necessarily make much sense 
> in an
> peer-to-peer configuration.  There is at
 least one example where 
> the use
> of "red" and "black" lingo has also been accompanied by diagrams that
> only address the use of IPsec in tunnel mode and assume the 
> VPN/Securitygateway model.
> 
> Comments?
> 
>                                        	- Ted
> 
> 
>