[Tinyos Core WG] ResourceController interface

[Philip Levis]

On Feb 2, 2007, at 11:02 AM, Kevin Klues wrote:

> Yes, it is only a name change, but one of the major confusions with  
> the original version of TEP 108 was with the ResourceController  
> interface and what its intended purpose was.  Matt (the shepard)  
> suggested the name change would probably make it more clear, and I  
> agreed with him.  As I'm searching back through my sent emails it  
> seems that I never sent anything to the mailing list discussing the  
> change.  I know that I intended to, but I was doing the revisions  
> while on vacation and I guess it somehow slipped my mind.  Since I  
> never heard anything back (from the email that I apparently never  
> sent :) I assumed that noone had any problems with it.  It was an  
> oversight on my part that 103 referenced ResourceController and  
> this really should have been taken care of before finalizing 108. I  
> apologize for that, but the question is what should be done now....
>
> I personally think the name change is an appropriate one and that  
> it should now be called ResourceDefaultOwner.  Both 103 and 108  
> have been finalized though, so I'm not really sure what the  
> appropriate course of action is.  Modifying 108 to point out that  
> the interface 'used' to be called ResourceController seems like a  
> bigger change than simply changing the single reference to this  
> interface in TEP 103.  Both TEPs have been officially finalized  
> though, so theoretically, neither of them should really be changed.
>

I'd suggest an Informational TEP that describes the change. Because  
it's Informational, it doesn't necessarily have to go through the  
whole rigamarole that Documentary ones do.

Phil