[address-policy-wg] Re: Re: Unique prefixes for all proposals

Hi,

    been there, done that :-)

    When RIPE started, we invented an elaborate series of documents with
    a 'proper' naming scheme. Trust a physicist (me) and a computer
    scientist (Daniel) to come up with a scientifically correct solution.

    This lasted for less then two years, after which we went to the
    current scheme. It took me only a week or so to go through all the
    archives and rename documents, and update references.

    As they say, l'histoire se repete toujours :-)

Rob

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Dmitry Burkov wrote:

> On 24.11.10 22:38, Remco Van Mook wrote:
>>> Well, rip-123 will always be correctly addressed as ripe-123. It's just 
>>> that ripe-
>>> doc-1234 would could be called ripe-1234. I don't see any confusion 
>>> arising
>>> from that and the normal document churn would take care of any potential
>>> confusion, anyway.
>> The confusion is that, for the next 25 years or so, people will be 
>> wondering what the relation is between ripe-<foo>  and ripe-doc-<bar> 
>> documents. Which one replaces which other one?
>> 
>> So again, please don't.
> Agreed, as don't see any real needs and only future problems.
>
> Dmitry
>> Remco
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