I understand your concerns, however, rather than spend too much time on the terms to get to the end result, let's start from the end result and work backwards. I think the bottom line Mike was trying to share is:

TJ at ref RX output is "noncompensable jitter"

Instead of picking on the terms, how about proposing what you think SAS should use? I'm in no way intending to be disrespectful, but you are correct that the terms don't match up with these other references and we may need to define something new to accomplish what we want. Such a proposal will help us to complete the spec.

Thank you for the references.

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