Re: [riot-devel] NSTF - Naming the stack

2015-05-02 Thread Ludwig Ortmann
Hi, On Sat, May 02, 2015 at 05:12:55PM +0200, Oleg Hahm wrote: After thinking just for some minutes over a new name for the stack, I thought that NG (pronounced Angie? ;)) may be not a bad idea after all and would save us from quite some renaming... All we would have to do then is to extract

[riot-devel] NSTF - Naming the stack

2015-05-02 Thread Oleg Hahm
Dear roaring IOTlers, after some discussion with Kaspar yesterday, we came to the conclusion that it would probably make sense to give a name to the new IPv6 network stack. The rational (aside from making it easier to refer to it) is that some parts of its implementation can serve as common

Re: [riot-devel] NSTF - Naming the stack

2015-05-02 Thread Oleg Hahm
Hi! What do you think? Due to its known meaning ng is as bad a name as new or next, because it will loose this meaning in the foreseeable future. Star Trek TNG hasn't lost its meaning even after twenty years... But I'm really not in favor of any particular name. I'm not sure if naming is