Fwd: [net2-wg] Collection TEP draft

[Omprakash Gnawali]

> > I am also curious about the tree_id. I think sometimes it is a forest
> > id. For example, if I configure bunch of nodes as a sink node in a
> > network, each sink will form its own tree, overlapping or not
> > overlapping with other trees in the network. In that case, we would
> > now be specifying the forest id rather than a tree id -- it is the
> > underlying system that determines for you which tree you are on. So,
> > maybe we should call this tree_id something else.
> 
> So should we just change the name to collection_id? A packet sent to a
> collection_id
> will reach one of the sinks that share that collection_id. Each sink
> is the root of a tree.


I think collection_id works.