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

[Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>]

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




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Michael Richardson <[e-mail]>, Sandelman Software Works
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