[Ecrit] Block name terseness in additional-data draft

Randall Gellens <randy@qti.qualcomm.com> Sun, 03 November 2013 17:26 UTC

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Cc: Brian Rosen <Brian.Rosen@neustar.biz>, "Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo) Tschofenig" <hannes.tschofenig@nsn.com>
Subject: [Ecrit] Block name terseness in additional-data draft
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I noticed that we are not consistent in the degree of terseness of 
the block names.  We have:

	o	ProviderInfo
	o	SvcInfo
	o	DevInfo
	o	SubInfo

I wonder if people feel we should have a consistent terseness level, 
and if so, consistently more or less so.  E.g., perhaps we should go 
with less terse and have:

	o	ProviderInfo
	o	ServiceInfo
	o	DeviceInfo
	o	SubscriberInfo

Or, perhaps we should go with more terse and have:

	o	PrvdrInfo
	o	SvcInfo
	o	DevInfo
	o	SubInfo

Personally, I'm inclined towards spending the extra few octets and 
going with the less terse names, as I suspect this may be easier for 
people to remember, and perhaps less likely to have spelling errors 
in implementations.  But I'd really like to know what others in the 
group think.

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Randall Gellens
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