Re: [Rats] looking for better terms -- request for bike shed discussion

How about (1) “attester" and (2) “target" or “subject”? 

Currently the EAT draft roughly uses “entity” and “submodule” for (2), but only roughly because it doesn’t distinguish between (1) and (2).

Attestation is not certification, but somewhat similarly Common Criteria certification uses “target of evaluation”.

LL

> On Jan 7, 2020, at 8:04 AM, Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> wrote:
> 
> 
> None of us have been happy with the confusion due to the alliterative
> terms "Attesting Environment"(1) and "Attested Environment"(2)
> 
> We agree that (1) *measures* (2).
> 
> We think that we could keep one of the terms (1) or (2) if we could come with
> a different enough term for the other.  There is an issue open:
>  https://github.com/ietf-rats-wg/architecture/issues/14
> 
> I asked Google, "What is a person who measures", and the answer it gave me
> was "surveyor".  There was criticism of this term because it sounds too
> active. (To "survey" in the civil engineering sense is quite active)
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/surveyor?s=t
> 
> assessor
> cartographer
> measurer
> land surveyor
> mapmaker
> topographer
> 
> 
> https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/survey?s=t
> 
> includes a bunch of interesting words, some of which we use already:
> 
> assess
> canvass
> check
> check out
> estimate
> evaluate
> examine
> inspect
> look over
> observe
> overlook
> oversee
> review
> scan
> supervise
> appraise
> assay
> case
> contemplate
> measure
> plan
> plot
> prospect
> rate
> read
> reconnoiter
> research
> scope
> size
> study
> summarize
> superintend
> valuate
> value
> view
> check over
> check up
> give the once over
> look upon
> set at
> size up
> stake out
> test the waters
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --
> Michael Richardson <mcr+IETF@sandelman.ca>, Sandelman Software Works
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