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A Vocabulary of Path Properties
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Add transparency property #33

Closed cyrill-k closed 4 years ago

cyrill-k commented 4 years ago

I defined transparency as a property of a service function.

I'm not sure if this restricts the usefulness of the transparency property. Are there cases where transparency is relevant for nodes/links that are not service functions?

Do you have other suggestions how to define it?

cyrill-k commented 4 years ago

I like the change from service function to node since it is more applicable. But I think saying if a node records meta-info about a protocol it cannot be transparent to that protocol is perfect since the node might simply parse the complete packet but not act on the meta-info. Maybe we can say if the node doesn't act based on the meta-info recorded for a protocol, the node is transparent to this protocol.

I revised the text but I'm not too happy with the sentence yet. If you see a way to describe it more nicely, feel free to change it.