[Freeipa-devel] rename topology suffixes

[Petr Vobornik]

On 11/27/2015 12:46 PM, Petr Spacek wrote:
> On 27.11.2015 09:00, Jan Cholasta wrote:
>> 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.
>
> Here I agree with Martin that domain is too overloaded term, so I would prefer
> realm or so.
>
> Also, I do not think that 'Realm is too Kerberos-specific' is a valid argument
> because 'domain is too DNS-centric' :-)
>

I guess we could find arguments for both 'domain' and 'realm'. :) I 
don't have strong opinions on any.

Actually, DN of the suffix consist of several 'DC' RDNs. DC is an 
initialism of "domain component". Several components create a domain so 
domain is correct ;)
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Petr Vobornik