[123760] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Naming Conventions
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Malte von dem Hagen)
Mon Mar 15 12:45:01 2010
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:44:20 +0100
From: Malte von dem Hagen <mvh@hosteurope.de>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <B113B8D7-8932-44E8-9F2C-E9A367A3D616@americafree.tv>
Reply-To: mvh@hosteurope.de
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
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Hi there,
we brainstormed alot about this topic some time ago, following some concl=
usions:
- anything trademarked might be a problem (so Zoidberg might be cool for =
a
router, but I couldn't take a router named Zapp for serious, and "Farns=
worth
is going mad" would be considered as normal operation ;-))
- anything just existing in a limited number will be a problem (the menti=
oned
presidents of the US of A might not follow a fast as needed by network
growth, same applies to grape varieties, planets and similar)
- anything which may be regarded as discriminating like female names migh=
t be a
problem (while "Sharra" is a beautiful name for a router, at least if y=
ou
like George R. R. Martin)
- anything vendor or model related is a bad idea in case of replacements
So, what remains?
Stars [astr.] are an option. There are enough of them, they are neither
trademarked nor discriminating, there are even enough with quite short an=
d
simple names.
Further, we wanted device type and location to be encoded. So we ended up=
with
something like
xe-0-0-0.cr-polaris.fra1.hosteurope.de,
xe-0-1-0.cr-pollux.cgn3.hosteurope.de
or
ae0-v12.cs-slave.r2.cgn3.hosteurope.de
Since Core Switches always are operated as redundant pairs, the are named=
master/slave, as they work as those per data centre room. Of course, we c=
ould
have just chosen "cr-$number", but at least a little bit of "colour" shou=
ld be
allowed in such a digital world like ours ;-)
Kind regards,
=2Em
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Malte von dem Hagen
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