Re: Taxonomy terms

From: Wojtek Sylwestrzak (W.Sylwestrzak@icm.edu.pl)
Date: Sun Oct 03 1999 - 11:47:39 MDT


Ian:
>
> > Cacheable is in your list of base terms twice - once in "[]" -
> >though I believe it is a 1st derivative term.
>
> Oops, it was only supposed to be in the "[]". Do others agree? I
> wasn't sure whether it was a "base" or 1st derivative.
>

I like "cacheable" better as 1st derivative, only it shouldn't
be used in the definition of "cache" then.

Other than that:

* surrogate proxy (reverse, server-side etc.)

Probably I'm alone here, but I don't like defining "surrogate proxy"
(or other equivalent term) at all. Otherwise we should define
both "server-side proxy" and "client-side proxy" as special cases (?)
of a "general proxy". Can each proxy be described as either
server-side or client-side ? OK, I don't want to start another
discussion on this here. However, the distinction here seems
so unimportant to me, that I'd rather see as 2nd derivative
if at all. I hope no other terminology bases on these terms ?

* replica

I'd rather vote for not defining replica itself, but staying
with a "mirror", and "replication". I don't think that
the term "replica" is being used in reality and we probably
shouldn't introduce too many artificial terminology here.

--w



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