-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 Hi Authors,
Not sure if I'm splitting hairs here or providing useful feedback, so please do with his feedback what you will: * I think CE and PE acronyms are a bit unclear. In my opinion CE is "Customer Edge" and PE is "Provider Edge" (both without the "Router" part). A lot of people do use PE to mean an edge router, but I see that as more of a "slang" use than as formal language use. This becomes clearer when you add in the acronym CPE, meaning Customer Premises Equipment. To explain via a typical real life scenario: The edge of my provider network is not a router, it's a switch. I aggregate many connections on a switch, and have a trunk port up to my router, because switch ports are cheaper than lines cards (this is a common practice). So the port on the edge switch, is the Provider Edge. Next comes a last mile connection to my customer. There may an NTE (Network Terminating Equipment) which terminates the last mile connection at the customer's premises. Attached to the NTE is the "WAN" side of a CPE device. The "LAN" side of that device is the Customer Edge. (If you think this model makes sense, this requires the introduction of NTE, CPE, WAN, and LAN into the document as well, sorry!). * There are some acronyms which are explained in the subsections of section 4, which are not mentioned in Section 3 (AS, BFD, EIGRP, EGP, RIP, etc.). But some of the acronyms are in Section 3 and explained in say 4.1 (such as ASN, RIR, etc). So it's not clear why only some acronyms are listed in Section 3 and not all. Maybe I just missed and need to re-read. Cheers, James. On Friday, April 3rd, 2026 at 16:13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Internet-Draft draft-ietf-grow-routing-ops-terms-02.txt is now available. It > is a work item of the Global Routing Operations (GROW) WG of the IETF. > > Title: Currently Used Terminology in Global Routing Operations > Authors: Tobias Fiebig > Wolfgang Tremmel > Name: draft-ietf-grow-routing-ops-terms-02.txt > Pages: 15 > Dates: 2026-04-03 > > Abstract: > > Operating the global routing ecosystem entails a divers set of > interacting components, while operational practice evolved over time. > In that time, terms emerged, disappeared, and sometimes changed their > meaning. > > To aid operators and implementers in reading contemporary drafts, > this document provides an overview of terms and abbreviations used in > the global routing operations community. The document explicitly > does not serve as an authoritative source of correct terminology, but > instead strives to provide an overview of practice. > > The IETF datatracker status page for this Internet-Draft is: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-grow-routing-ops-terms/ > > There is also an HTML version available at: > https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-ietf-grow-routing-ops-terms-02.html > > A diff from the previous version is available at: > https://author-tools.ietf.org/iddiff?url2=draft-ietf-grow-routing-ops-terms-02 > > Internet-Drafts are also available by rsync at: > rsync.ietf.org::internet-drafts > > > _______________________________________________ > GROW mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: ProtonMail wsG5BAEBCgBtBYJp2heICRCoEx+igX+A+0UUAAAAAAAcACBzYWx0QG5vdGF0 aW9ucy5vcGVucGdwanMub3JnfBzlU8w0upJ+ryEPZVbAlqWllPDYx1iHKa0L pQIYvqUWIQQ+k2NZBObfK8Tl7sKoEx+igX+A+wAAhnIP+gKVmSp9Ao74qARN f3sLGur1bcAIBO8IP1khcfE6tiV5CxyU9R2jAohoyY1YBH6iJqW7Qy4KGwRs vJ3KwaZwFIyv+rN4I4OoUsoNKzYqTtFxsQDWaardizlTIVExtOMMXTAuObet AsVxyZczxj8AsO9zLIeGjab0ypUE+RuvX+4/p3qp06XIe3qqoHUPNhMRyZnL t1epASp1Bq1LVwAT+A2aaUHMzNYK4s8xeXkLiAIeVaB3faXr7KA+Fteo0wG4 vyQIeojZOtdQaQ7Ydz0BhZxeHp2AB+6dgZHiRMuXCuL8JCfqfwxzmn3vV92J 1NOJTCsbulnNcyXiQQKszE5b7HYDzVJvOfY3CEMVIJK3SK+dJZb0cjyWb0+0 DfLax2QWpP58g00a5LUS0ZwLSbto/4lCX6k/UEaRS8+67IY9QGCNLfZqHipW EoejCG1bmAZQ8HfZSAMJwtpCWPwt6w9QdzkGTe0ZS1xsq+nzX/QpZ0rlqFO8 YSNc2wME9JYqYdYRWdBWbDPrmarOlQ190rO/kllZXnroeH9ButVUt2R2PIIa Kn6nSwlfmKl/L1Sxq/5X8afKW5AJF64RJ8VoBBSay1/IUCPQMNx+92WiFAe9 /C3RcEuoc+tEhCtLoO2r1ruSxwDWzVPIjz9JwMmrcg+uaLzeYtnl8Bqjv5dQ oQIedu5Q =vWZH -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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