Re: [Diffserv] Model - queues - replacement text

[Lloyd Wood <eep1lw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 15 Dec 1999, Grenville Armitage wrote:

> Pretty much right. I dont disagree with 90% of the words
> Dan wrote, except that he's defining "queue" to be what
> is really a "queuing system". Most of the responses on this
> thread have (consciously or unconciously) used phrases like
> "queuing system" and "queue management" to describe the
> elements surround the actions that may be effected on the
> queue itself. I just want to see a queue clearly articulated
> as a storage entity, with its temporal or discard characteristics
> impose by surrounding elements (aka queue management and
> scheduler).

Personally, I just want to see a queue clearly articulated as an
ordered structure providing references to various entities in storage;
actions affecting the queue do not necessarily affect the storage. The
storage and its relationship to the entities themselves need to be
much more clearly stated.

L.

oh, and we need a definition of 'entity' too. Hope Grenville's up to it.

<L.Wood@surrey.ac.uk>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/>



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