Re: [netmod] IETF WG state changed for draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6991-bis

[Randy Presuhn <[e-mail]>]

Hi -

On 2022-04-07 11:31 AM, Kent Watsen wrote:
> Hi Randy,
> 
>> That's a reasonable rationale, and might even make a good CLR if
>> adopted from the very beginning, but given the ability of model
>> designers to read too much (or too little) into names,
>> perhaps one might consider the possibility of eliminating this
>> particular source of confusion altogether?
>>
>>     date -> date-with-zone
>>     date-no-zone -> date-no-zone
>>     time -> time-with-zone
>>     time-no-zone -> time-no-zone
> 
> 
> This looks like my option 'e' in the other thread.  It's good because it makes it a conscious decision either way.

Sorry to have duplicated your idea without credit.

One concern, both here and with respect to the LSR discussion -
Though there is clearly *mnemonic* value to descriptive labels,
I hate to see an institutionalization of the questionable
practice of inferring *semantics* from the construction of labels.
Hungarian notation has its limits.

Randy