Hi Wei, My two-cents worth... Many of us find SLAC's own name change to be highly regrettable but it is for sure going forward. Getting ahead of the curve on this looks like a rational thing when this new name does not depend of SLAC's new name. Cheers. Charlie -- Charles C. Young M.S. 43, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center P.O. Box 20450 Stanford, CA 94309 [log in to unmask] voice (650) 926 2669 fax (650) 926 2923 CERN GSM +41 76 487 2069 > -----Original Message----- > From: [log in to unmask] > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of Wei Yang > Sent: Friday, July 11, 2008 10:37 PM > To: atlas-sccs-planning-l > Subject: renaming site names from SLAC specific to WT2 > > There are many places we register our grid name and various services. > For historical and practical reason, these names are all SLAC > specific, such as PROD_SLAC (for OSG), SLACXRD (for Panda and > ATLAS storage), ANAL_SLAC (for Panda), etc. > > I get requests from both within and outside of SLAC to rename > them to WT2, and I am planing to do it in several steps to > minimize confusions (although I think many things will > inevitably run into trouble giving that there are so many > places and them are all interconnected). > > Please let me know if you think there is reason we should > hold off this renaming. Otherwise, I will start sending out > e-mails late next week. > > -- > Wei Yang | [log in to unmask] | 650-926-3338(O) >