Subject: terminology: O versus S

From: Brian E Carpenter <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 07 Oct 1999 03:49:44 -0500

I've become aware that the Policy WG is using "Service Level Objectives"
for somewhat the same thing that DiffServ is using "Service Level
Specification" for. We need to resolve this.

>From draft-ietf-policy-framework-00.txt

>      Service Level Objective (SLO): Partitions an SLA into
>      individual objectives that can be mapped into policies that
>      can be executed. The SLOs define metrics to enforce, police,
>      and/or monitor the SLA.

>From draft-ietf-diffserv-new-terms-00.txt

>      - A Service Level Specfication (SLS) is a set of parameters and
>      their values which together define the service offered to a traffic
>      stream by a DS domain.

  Brian