[Freeipa-devel] rename topology suffixes

[Jan Cholasta]

On 27.11.2015 08:33, Martin Kosek wrote:
> On 11/27/2015 07:05 AM, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> On 26.11.2015 17:15, Petr Vobornik wrote:
>>> New topology management gives names to managed suffixes:
>>>
>>> ipaca: o=ipaca
>>> realm: dc=example,dc=com
>>>
>>> We already had several offline discussions to change the names because
>>> they could be better. It would be difficult to change them after release
>>> of 4.3.
>>>
>>> New proposals:
>>> ca for o=ipaca
>>> domain for dc=example,dc=com
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> +1
>
> ca is probably fine. Domain also, although the original realm name is OK
> with me too, domain has too many meanings and can be confused with DNS
> domain.

Realm is too Kerberos-specific. The names are visible only in topology 
context, so I don't think it would be confusing. When you say "the 
domain suffix", it describes the suffix pretty correctly IMHO.

-- 
Jan Cholasta