On 03/15/2013 08:12 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
The canonical name of all PDPs will be RIPE-PDP-YYYY-NN. Updated versions will receive suffixes like Internet Drafts, i.e. -v1, -v2, -v3. Old-style PDP names of the format YYYY-NN will remain valid, but all new documentation and communication by RIPE will use the new format.
+1 I actually had the exact same thought a few weeks ago, so I guess it wouldn't be a bad thing.
Alternatively, the name of the Working Group may be embedded in all names, e.g. RIPE-PDP-APWG-YYYY-NN, or RIPE-APWG-PDP-YYYY-NN.
I'm not a fan of this alternative. Embedding the WG's name would make the names longer and would mean that either the YYYY-NN part would need to remain globally unique in the RIPE-PDP-* namespace or it wouldn't. Both options could cause confusion since: * RIPE-PDP-APWG-2013-01 and RIPE-PDP-APWG-2013-03 could exist, but perhaps RIPE-PDP-APWG-2013-02 not. I might spend useless time looking for a document that never existed. * Both RIPE-PDP-APWG-2013-01 and RIPE-PDP-AAWG-2013-01 would exist. It might be just me, but those strings confuse my brain. I would prefer to stick with RIPE-PDP-2013-01. Gerry