On Mar 19, 2013, at 6:33 AM, Matthew Wild <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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.
> 

+1 to IdentifierClass.

The suggestion that first came to my mind was probably worse: BasicClass


- m&m

Matt Miller < [email protected] >
Cisco Systems, Inc.

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