On 19 March 2013 12:23, Joseph Yee <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 3:52 AM, Peter Saint-Andre <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> On 3/18/13 7:03 PM, Alexey Melnikov wrote:
>>> Hi Peter,
>>>
>>> On 18/03/2013 17:18, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>>> During the WG session last week, I got the sense that people find
>>>> the term "NameClass" misleading ("why can't I represent my name
>>>> using the NameClass?!"). Thus I propose changing it to
>>>> "SafeClass". Any objections?
>>>
>>> I like SafeClass much better.
>>
>> It's the best I could come up with on the plane yesterday. :-)
>>
>> My only concern is that people might think "safe" is some kind of
>> guarantee that nothing bad could ever happen if they use the SafeClass...
>>
>
> Hi Peter,
>
> I have the same concern about SafeClass too.  Can't think of a better
> name, but don't see it as big concern.  Probably just more text needed
> to explain 'safe' under what condition.
>
> Just throwing names out from my brain...
>
> RestrictedClass?
> IdentifierClass?
> ResourceNamingClass?

I was also going to suggest IdentifierClass just as your message came
through. Many people already understand an 'identifier' to consist of
characters from a restricted set (as in 99% of programming languages,
and various protocols). Usernames usually draw from a similar set of
characters in most systems.

Regards,
Matthew
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