Changes between Version 2 and Version 3 of Naming Conventions

Timestamp:

12/01/05 11:54:55 (20 years ago)

Author:

Daniel Kahn gillmor

Comment:

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Naming Conventions

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 This lack of convention among usernames is fine as long as there is a straightforward and consistent policy for allocating and de-allocating them. An example policy could be: allocation is first come, first served.  de-allocation is handled by disabling accounts, but the account name is never removed from the system.
 
+[wiki:dkg] would prefer that usernames start with a lower case letter. and consist solely of lowercase letters and numbers.  No such restrictions would apply to e-mail aliases.
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 == machine names ==
 
 machines also need names.  policy for what they are named is not terribly important, as long as there is consistency for their allocation and de-allocation.  It is also crucial that new machines can be given a permanent name '''before''' they are configured.  Changing names after a full machine configuration is do-able, but can cause a lot of headaches.
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+[wiki:dkg] would also prefer that machine names start with a lowercase letter, and consist solely of lowercase letters and numbers.