[tahoe-dev] what does the "reliability" keyword mean?

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

Zooko Wilcox-O'Hearn wrote:
> On Monday, 2009-11-30, at 17:16 , tahoe-lafs wrote:
> 
>>   * keywords:  test ARM => test ARM reliability
> 
> David-Sarah: what do you mean by the tag "reliability"?

Cases where the intended functionality doesn't always work due to
nondeterministic failures.

> We use the tags 'confidentiality' and 'integrity' to mean issues which could  
> lead to information leakage or corruption respectively.

Right. For example, not being able to download a file on a particular
occasion is a reliability issue, but it is not an integrity issue provided
that the data is still available to be downloaded, and is not a
confidentiality issue as long as no information is leaked.

> I would like to have a keyword to mean "This issue could lead to data  
> loss." (not just data availability, and not integrity).  What shall  
> we name that one?

I would have included that under "integrity", but if we want to make
this distinction, how about "dataloss"?

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood  ⚥  http://davidsarah.livejournal.com

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