Hi, Mark,
Given that starting point, my guess (I don’t remember, either, sorry) is that I probably objected to yet another “here’s a term that we use, but we can’t tell you, dear reader, what we mean by it, because we mean different things at different times and we won’t give you any hint as to which one it is in a given usage.”
If we are really worried that the specific meaning of “network” needs to be well understood in the places where it is used (which one of the items you list is it really, in each context), then we should replace the word with the correct one of those in each usage.
Mark
From: Mark Rison <m.rison@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, 7 May, 2024 11:01
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Subject: [STDS-802-11-TGM] 11me/D5.0 CID 7225 ("network")
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Hello,
CID 7225 was marked "more work required" but the minutes don't remind me
what more work I was supposed to do. Can you help?
Comment: The term "network" is used a lot, but not actually defined. It might be equivalent to "BSS", or it might be equivalent to "ESS", or it might be something else
Proposed change: Define the term
My starting offer is:
network: A set of devices that can communicate. Depending
on the context, a network might be a basic service set (BSS), an
extended service set (ESS), a non-802.11 local area network (LAN)
or a wide area network (WAN).
Thanks,
Mark
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