From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Monjalon Subject: Re: [RFC] location for DPDK related white papers Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:52:54 +0200 Message-ID: <1654065.J0ur1xoz03@xps13> References: <1560743.lPy8AhS6XF@xps13> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: dev@dpdk.org To: "Mcnamara, John" Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f171.google.com (mail-wi0-f171.google.com [209.85.212.171]) by dpdk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51B285A57 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 16:54:01 +0200 (CEST) Received: by wicll6 with SMTP id ll6so34913795wic.0 for ; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 07:54:01 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: List-Id: patches and discussions about DPDK List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: dev-bounces@dpdk.org Sender: "dev" 2015-10-23 14:48, Mcnamara, John: > From: Thomas Monjalon [mailto:thomas.monjalon@6wind.com] > > I would like to comment but I don't really know what means "white papers". > > A "white paper" is like an academic paper but originating from a company > (or non-academic entity). For example here is one that is related to DPDK: > https://networkbuilders.intel.com/docs/IntelDPDK_PacketThroughputVirtualNetwork.pdf It seems to be well hosted on intel.com. Maybe you would like a page on dpdk.org to gather interesting links to documents related to DPDK? So we should probably define a clear scope and acceptance rules to accept adding a new link? > > Why not ask the question while submitting such document? > > Mainly because converting the document to RST will take some effort (in particular the images). OK makes sense