Hello, We took your comments, went back to our definitions and updated some of them. The new definitions are below: Topology: A set of Network Elements and the links connecting them NetworkDomain: An unordered collection of Network Elements managed under the same shared policy umbrella. To make the distinction clearer that we are describing network elements only, we're calling this a NetworkDomain instead of a regular Domain. Jeroen. On 14/12/2009 05:47, Jeroen van der Ham wrote:
Hello,
As agreed at the last OGF, Inder and I have worked on the definitions of Network, Topology and Domain.
- Topology: A connected graph of Network Elements The intended usage of this is to describe the thing that a network provider advertises to others as his network topology that is available for use.
- Domain: An unordered collection of Network Elements managed under the same shared policy umbrella. This describes who or what is responsible for the Network Elements.
- Network: no definition We had a discussion about the meaning of this term and in the end we had to conclude that is not possible to provide a workable definition for the term 'Network'. The term Network has become so widely used for so many diverse meanings that it is impossible to create a strict definition that everyone can agree on, while still expressing something useful.
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