I had an action item to propose a new title for §3.1 in RSSAC002v5.

<https://docs.google.com/document/d/187k3b64DgkeCM6ib6ny6Ok7LzNxdT_v5X6FE0l0hdZ0/> 

Once the new title is determined I will then affect the language throughout the section in accordance with its new title.

First I thought about some terms for time durations in networking.

time, latency, lag, delay

‘latency’ would seem the obvious choice, but my problem with ‘latency’ is that it often refers to a mean over many trips. When we talk about ‘high latency’ in networking we’re usually referring to many trips, or a state of the network, whereas here we’re talking about a single transfer of data. 

‘latency’ like ‘delay’ and ‘lag’ are also negative. We can add qualifiers to both like ‘low-‘, but without that qualifier it has negative connotations.

This leaves me with ’time’, because it does not evoke a mean or negativity.

And then I considered the definitions of publish and serve from RSSAC026v2.

<https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/rssac-026-lexicon-12mar20-en.pdf> 

The period we’re titling here is between publishing and serving root zone data. More specifically it is between receipt of a NOTIFY message from the Root Zone Maintainer until 95% of the RSI’s instances are serving the new data.

All the other titles in §3 start with ‘The’, and §3.1 needs to blend in.

So how about this:

3.1 The time elapsed between publishing and serving

Thanks,

Andrew