Николай, привет.
> PRNTSRV = принтсервер
Прсткшмр.
Не считаю это содержательным именем, плюс верхний регистр и сокращения
желательно в именах не использовать.
Нашёл RFC 1178, [1] целиком посвящённый именованию машин. Вот, что
данный документ говорит о том, как _не следует_ выбирать имена:
Don't choose a name after a project unique to that machine.
A manufacturing project had named a machine "shop" since it was
going to be used to control a number of machines on a shop floor. A
while later, a new machine was acquired to help with some of the
processing. Needless to say, it couldn't be called "shop" as well.
[...]
Of course, they could have called the second one "shop2" and so on.
But then one is really only distinguishing machines by their number.
You might as well just call them "1", "2", and "3". The only time
this kind of naming scheme is appropriate is when you have a lot of
machines and there are no reasons for any human to distinguish
between them.
[...]
В нашем случае, вполне возможно, что одна машина может обеспечивать
сразу несколько сервисов, что затрудняет именование по твоей схеме.
Плюс назначение машин может часто меняться -- тогда либо придётся менять
имена, либо будут накапливаться несоответствия между именами и
назначением машин.
Далее:
While computers aren't quite analogous to people, their names are.
Nobody expects to learn much about a person by their name. Just
because a person is named "Don" doesn't mean he is the ruler of the
world (despite what the "Choosing a Name for your Baby" books say).
In reality, names are just arbitrary tags. You cannot tell what a
person does for a living, what their hobbies are, and so on.
Don't expect case to be preserved.
А вот немного рекомендаций о том, как _следует_ выбирать имена:
Use words/names that are rarely used.
[...]
Use theme names.
Naming groups of machines in a common way is very popular, and
enhances communality while displaying depth of knowledge as well as
imagination. A simple example is to use colors, such as "red" and
"blue". Personality can be injected by choices such as "aqua" and
"crimson".
Certain sets are finite, such as the seven dwarfs. When you order
your first seven computers, keep in mind that you will probably get
more next year. Colors will never run out.
Some more suggestions are: mythical places (e.g., Midgard, Styx,
Paradise), mythical people (e.g., Procne, Tereus, Zeus), killers
(e.g., Cain, Burr, Boleyn), babies (e.g., colt, puppy, tadpole,
elver), collectives (e.g., passel, plague, bevy, covey), elements
(e.g., helium, argon, zinc), flowers (e.g., tulip, peony, lilac,
arbutus). Get the idea?
Use real words.
В общем, по моему мнению, использование названий видов водоплавающих и
морских птиц вполне подходит к вышеописанным рекомендациям.
Рекомендую ознакомится с данным RFC -- примечательный документ, на мой
взгляд.
Кстати, надеюсь, ты со мной согласишься, что моя схема гораздо лучше
использования имён популярных "звёзд", как предлагается здесь:
http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=29370&cid=3152805
- Артём
[1]
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1178