Talk:Inframetric

Notability
Is this really an established concept in mathematics? Neither Mathworld nor PlanetMath  have an entry about it. From the sentence Inframetrics were notably introduced... and the sole reference one has to assume that this was introduced by the article author himself as an ad hoc definition in 2008. Now, I have no reason to doubt the scientific validity of the cited paper (and I personally find the idea to modify the triangle inequality to model Internet round-trip times quite intriguing), but one conference report is not enough to establish a new term. See also Avoid_neologisms.

Regards, HaeB (talk) 03:39, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * The page was created by the author of the unique '08 article discussing this concept. It does seem to be a neologism introduced by the author himself.  The page should be proposed for deletion, and the author invited to explain why this is not a neologism.  Katzmik (talk) 05:25, 19 September 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't believe that article created the term, but I also don't think the term has gained currency. CRGreathouse (t | c) 21:50, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

Progress
This is a natural extension of metrics. If no term exists, then a neologism has to be created at some point. INFOCOM is a well established conference with a thorough peer-review process. If this is not sufficient, or if this is too early, the article should be removed.

Regards, Viennot (talk) 20:41, 24 September 2008 (UTC)