Re: [Discuss-gnuradio] V3 Comments on "BBN's Proposed extensions for data networking"

[Michael Dickens]

On Thursday, June 15, 2006, at 11:46 AM, Eric Blossom wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 08:37:48AM -0400, Michael Dickens wrote:
> > Hmmm ... good point.  In a dynamic system, ports could get dropped or
> > connected "on the fly".  Could you write a quick blurp about this,
> > somewhere before 4.9?  Maybe 4.6.8 or 4.8.6?
>
> I think we're approaching the "polishing the turd" stage...

My point was that, all the sudden in 4.9, it's mentioned that "oh, and 
there can be unconnected ports".  As the reading, I was caught unaware 
of this as an option, since there had never been mention of it before.  
Further, there was no rationale given for their existence; it was just 
stated.  Thus my asking if a quick sentence or 2 could be written in an 
appropriate place, which at minimum talks about the possibility of 
unconnected ports due to the dynamic reconfiguration possibilities.  
4.6.8, or 4.8.6, or 4.8.5; there are many possible places where a quick 
sentence could be inserted and would make the text less surprising 
w/r.t. this one issue.

Polishing?  Maybe.  Discussing, understanding, and making the 
architecture document more readable?  Definitely. ;-) - MLD