[RSSAC Caucus] RSSAC002v5: New title for section 3.1

[Alejandro Acosta]

Hello Andrew,

   After checking to document and reading your email I think you are 
right, it looks the word "time" is much more appropriate.


Thanks,


On 1/3/23 10:34 AM, Andrew McConachie wrote:
> Dear RSSAC Caucus Members,
>
> I had an action item to propose a new title for §3.1 in RSSAC002v5.
> <https://docs.google.com/document/d/187k3b64DgkeCM6ib6ny6Ok7LzNxdT_v5X6FE0l0hdZ0/> 
>
>
> Once the new title is determined I will then affect the language 
> throughout the section in accordance with its new title.
>
> First I thought about some terms for time durations in networking.
> time, latency, lag, delay
>
> ‘latency’ would seem the obvious choice, but my problem with ‘latency’ 
> is that it often refers to a mean over many trips. When we talk about 
> ‘high latency’ in networking we’re usually referring to many trips, or 
> a state of the network, whereas here we’re talking about a single 
> transfer of data.
>
> ‘latency’ like ‘delay’ and ‘lag’ are also negative. We can add 
> qualifiers to both like ‘low-‘, but without that qualifier it has 
> negative connotations.
>
> This leaves me with ’time’, because it does not evoke a mean or 
> negativity.
>
> And then I considered the definitions of publish and serve from 
> RSSAC026v2.
> <https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-026-lexicon-12mar20-en.pdf> 
>
>
> The period we’re titling here is between publishing and serving root 
> zone data. More specifically it is between receipt of a NOTIFY message 
> from the Root Zone Maintainer until 95% of the RSI’s instances are 
> serving the new data.
>
> All the other titles in §3 start with ‘The’, and §3.1 needs to blend in.
> 3.2 The volume of traffic
> 3.3 The query and response size distribution
> 3.4 The RCODE distribution
> 3.5 The number of sources seen
>
> So how about this:
> 3.1 The time elapsed between publishing and serving
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
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