Todd Burroughs to Frank Knobbe: > > Isn't the complete lack of naming standardization in the AV industry > > simply amazing? Imagine that were the case in science, particular > > medicine... > > No shit. They should at least get together and come up with some common > naming convention. They need to make some common "naming authority", it's > not difficult, we do it all the time with other software and as mentioned, > in all scientific disciplines. Otherwise, things become very convoluted > for us in the know. This is irrelevent to the general population, > but is necessary for the people who have to deal with these things.
Believe it or not we know, and things are being done about it. The "scientific disciplines" and others you speak of don't have to deal with things that happen in any and all possible combinations of as often, as fast, polymorphically, metamorphically, combinatorially, etc as the AV industry does _and generally_ have had several generations of academic research to form, refine, toss out and start over, etc their classifaction and naming systems. Still, I agree that we AV researchers could do naming better but there is not sufficient external pressure to force the industry to try to do a better job of naming than it currently does so it has no reason to "do the hard yards" that any significant improvement in naming consistency will require... > How about it "AV guys"? (I mean to be nice here...) Other than a few voices wailing within the industry, there are some much larger scale moves afoot that just may change the "there is not sufficient external pressure" factor I mentioned above, though realistically these moves may take years rather than months to produce significant improvement, but they are a start... Regards, Nick FitzGerald _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.netsys.com/full-disclosure-charter.html
