[Freeipa-devel] rename topology suffixes

[Jan Cholasta]

On 27.11.2015 13:10, Petr Vobornik wrote:
> 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 ;)

"Domain" is also used by AD and in our documentation IIRC.

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Jan Cholasta