On Nov 14, 2005, at 10:49 AM, Dave Crocker wrote:
Folks,
The current draft refers to a collectively-managed set of email
components
as distinct from some other, independent collectively-managed set of
components -- as an Administrative Unit (AU). Examples might be a
personal
MTA, as one AU, an email hosting service as another, an integrated
service
(AOL, Yahoo, MSN, etc) as another, and so on.
...
We need *some* term, so that such references as "boundary MTA" can be
meaningful -- what is it the boundary of?
I am still searching for a term that folks will be willing to use.
The various ones I've suggested have not resonated with folks.
Last week, I was told to see whether an acronym might do better.
Here is my first candidate, with an eager request for anything
better that folks like:
Common Operating Group (COG)
A COG is a collection of Internet Mail components
subject to a single set of administrative operations
policies.
Comments?
You wish to avoid the term domain. There are terms used like System
Administrator (Sys-Admin), or Network Administrator (Net-Admin), or
Database Administrator (DBA). Email Administrator (Email-Admin),
rather than Administrative-Unit (AU) would follow this vein. An
administrative boundary would occur where systems are under a
different Email-Admin. Systems would be under the same Email-Admin
rather than within the same AU. Without a dictionary of terms, this
Email-Admin term can still be understood. COG would seem to be as
confusing as AU.
-Doug