Joe I see how that properly describes the relative authority of the two components. I always prefer to use a h/w flip-flop to visualise the behaviour. I am fine with moving to a new name provided we captures the actual behaviour. Stewart > On 26 Jul 2020, at 22:49, Joseph Touch <touch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> On Jul 26, 2020, at 2:32 PM, Jay Daley <jay@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> A question I can’t resolve by Googling - has anyone attempted to create entirely new words to represent the concepts that master or slave have been used to represent? e.g. a word that means "authoritative source of data that has no dependency on another source" and has no other meaning? > > Why aren’t either primary or authoritative vs. copy/secondary/replica sufficient? > > Joe
