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

[Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>]

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>>>>> "Theodore" == Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> writes:
    Theodore> careful not to introduce them.  The reasons for this is
    Theodore> two-fold.  First of all, it introduces additional specialized
    Theodore> lingo which may make the documents more difficult to read.
    Theodore> Secondly, "red" and "black" primarily only makes sense in the
    Theodore> case of a security gateway, and do not necessarily make much

  Agreed.

    Theodore> sense in an peer-to-peer configuration.  There is at least one
    Theodore> example where the use of "red" and "black" lingo has also been
    Theodore> accompanied by diagrams that only address the use of IPsec in
    Theodore> tunnel mode and assume the VPN/Security gateway model.

  Also, Red/Black terms are *exchanged* in some Canadian CSE documents.
  So, please just avoid the terms.

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