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On Tue, 2011-05-03 at 02:28 -0700, Paul Turner wrote:
> Since bandwidth periods may be non-uniform we normalize to the maximum allowed
> period, 1 second. 

I'm still somewhat confused on this point, what does it mean to have a
(parent) group with 0.1s period with child-groups that have 1s periods?