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RE: [Syslog-sec] Naming Style for SD-PARAMs



Hi,

The case-consistency was overlooked by the WG. It will be easy to
overlook by others.
I suggest we add a guideline to implementers suggesting the use of
lower camel for consistency.

dbh 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org 
> [mailto:syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org] On Behalf Of 
> Rainer Gerhards
> Sent: Friday, January 14, 2005 4:41 AM
> To: Sharon Chisholm; syslog-sec@employees.org
> Subject: RE: [Syslog-sec] Naming Style for SD-PARAMs
> 
> Sharon,
> 
> I agree to your comment. I will change it consistently to 
> all-lowercase
> in the draft, but I will not include any requirement to do 
> so. Hopefully
> the consistent lowercase will be guidiance enough to implementors ;)
> 
> Rainer 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org 
> > [mailto:syslog-sec-bounces@www.employees.org] On Behalf Of 
> > Sharon Chisholm
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:13 PM
> > To: syslog-sec@employees.org
> > Subject: [Syslog-sec] Naming Style for SD-PARAMs
> > 
> > hi
> > 
> > I was looking through version 8 of the protocol specification 
> > to see what
> > sort of naming style was being used for SD-PARAMs and it 
> > seems all over the
> > map. Should set a best practice and use it consistently 
> throughout the
> > document? I don't think we want an actual requirement though 
> > as it would
> > turn into a CLR (crappy little rule)
> > 
> > 1. Upper Camel
> > 
> > EventSource, EventID
> > 
> > 2. Lower Camel
> > 
> > enterpriseID
> > 
> > 3. all lower case
> > 
> > tzknown, issynced, issynced
> > 
> > 4. Hyphenated
> > 
> > sw-version
> > 
> > Sharon Chisholm
> > Nortel Networks
> > Ottawa, Ontario
> > Canada
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