TCNCoalition / TCN

Specification and reference implementation of the TCN Protocol for decentralized, privacy-preserving contact tracing.
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Consider terminology change from "Contact Event Numbers" #37

Closed hdevalence closed 4 years ago

hdevalence commented 4 years ago

As discussed on the cross-organizational Zoom call, we should try to standardize terminology between all the different contact tracing protocols.

One point of discussion was the term "Contact Event Number". Some points of discussion:

A preliminary alternative is "Temporary Contact Number" (TCN)

zssz commented 4 years ago

I like "Temporary Tag" (TT) also.

hdevalence commented 4 years ago

@zssz Would you be happy with "TCN"/"TCK"?

hdevalence commented 4 years ago

Making this change isn't particularly difficult -- it just requires careful search-and-replace -- but it does touch basically every part of the repository, so it will cause any outstanding changes to have conflicts.

For this reason I would like to: 1) definitively decide on new terms, if we decide to change terms at all 2) wait for all in-flight work to land 3) make the change then.

hdevalence commented 4 years ago

Doing this now.