VS: VL: Service namespace

[Katila Matti]

On Dec 7, 2007 5:45, Wally Ritchie wrote:
> On Dec 6, 2007 7:12 PM, Katila Matti <matti.katila at ixonos.com> wrote:
>> On Dec 6. 2007 18:35 Wally Ritchie wrote:
>>> On Dec 6, 2007 8:31 AM, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
>>>> org.freesmartphone.Telephony as prefix.
>>>
>>> Perhaps I'm being too limiting but it seems to me we are clearly in
>>> the MOBILE space, i.e. mobile telephony. The term MS (Mobile Station)
>>> has been used for decades (PLMN). Especially because this is a global
>>> effort, I think we need to use the most applicable terms from
>>> international standards unless there is a good reason not to.
>>
>> If we are going to use terms used on the field we should use all terms
>> accordingly. ... [snip]  ... but I'm scare of the hobbyist who want
>> to use the API but find it cryptic.
>
> I'm not sure what you saying here. You think using the proper industry
> terms would be the wrong way to go? Instead of just learning the
> terms, you propose making up something new. I do agree that things
> should be made as simple as possible - but no simpler.

Well, I just criticize the terms that has been selected by the
industry ;-) I started a collection of terms in here:
http://www.freesmartphone.org/wiki/index.php/Specification_vocabulary

Anyway, if we choose to use MS we could use UE as well. According to
3GPP: """A Mobile Station (MS) corresponds to a User Equipment
(UE). See 3GPP TS 24.002.""" (source: 3GPP TR 21.905). There's no
explanation which one should be used in which context.


> Mobile Termination Layer is a new term. You will find lots under
> Mobile Termination because that's the GSM name for the architectural
> entity between the Baseband and the Application Processor (MMI). This
> Layer is intended to be interface between the "Phone Part" of the
> smartphone and the User Interface in whatever form.

Sorry but I don't understand this comparison. There's pretty much no
software related to bridge between baseband and application
processor. Usually there's some kind of signalling system and/or
shared memory. And that's all hardware related, e.g. OMAP and
Freescale architecture. We are speaking of software layer in here
after all.

Could you try to add some description over here:
http://www.freesmartphone.org/wiki/index.php/Specification_vocabulary#Mobile_Termination_.28MT.29


> Please don't get discouraged just because you don't already have all
> the expertise.  Few do. It's a mountain of stuff.

Yep. We need to decide how to pick up the name. As I have
understood there are two possibilities for host name:

- org.freesmartphone
- org.openmtl

, and few options for software layer namespace:

- Telephony
- MS
- UE

These converge to following list (in shuffled order):

org.freesmartphone.UE
org.openmtl.MS
org.freesmartphone.MS
org.openmtl.Telephony
org.openmtl.UE
org.freesmartphone.Telephony

We need to select one. I propose that we vote and give points: 3
points to the best one and 2 points to second best and 1 point to
third. Ok?


   -Matti