[ncc-services-wg] Pre-PDP discussion: "PDPs should be renamed from YYYY-NN to RIPE-PDP-YYYY-NN-vN"

On 03/15/2013 08:12 PM, Richard Hartmann wrote:
>    The canonical name of all PDPs will be RIPE-PDP-YYYY-NN.
>    Updated versions will receive suffixes like Internet Drafts, i.e.
> -v1, -v2, -v3.
>    Old-style PDP names of the format YYYY-NN will remain valid, but all
> new documentation and communication by RIPE will use the new format.

+1

I actually had the exact same thought a few weeks ago, so I guess it
wouldn't be a bad thing.

>   Alternatively, the name of the Working Group may be embedded in all
> names, e.g. RIPE-PDP-APWG-YYYY-NN, or RIPE-APWG-PDP-YYYY-NN.

I'm not a fan of this alternative. Embedding the WG's name would make
the names longer and would mean that either the YYYY-NN part would need
to remain globally unique in the RIPE-PDP-* namespace or it wouldn't.

Both options could cause confusion since:

   * RIPE-PDP-APWG-2013-01 and RIPE-PDP-APWG-2013-03 could exist, but
     perhaps RIPE-PDP-APWG-2013-02 not. I might spend useless time
     looking for a document that never existed.

   * Both RIPE-PDP-APWG-2013-01 and RIPE-PDP-AAWG-2013-01 would exist.
     It might be just me, but those strings confuse my brain. I would
     prefer to stick with RIPE-PDP-2013-01.

Gerry