[kata-dev] Confidential Containers: Naming

Ariel Adam aadam at redhat.com
Tue Sep 14 05:50:48 UTC 2021


On Mon, Sep 13, 2021 at 8:41 PM Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert at redhat.com>
wrote:

> * Samuel Ortiz via kata-dev (kata-dev at lists.katacontainers.io) wrote:
> > Hey Everyone,
> >
> > Naming is hard, we all know it. And the time has come to pick a name for
> our future confidential containers GitHub repo/organization.
> > With other usual suspects, we’ve come up with a list of names for that
> project. This is copied from the confidential containers meeting
> document[1]:
> >
> >       • Concontainer(s)
> >       • Conficon
> >       • Confibox
> >       • Confidcon
> >       • con-con
> >       • Con-box
> >       • Qonfid
> >       • Confidential-containers
> >       • Blackbox
> >       • Blackhole
> >       • Skelduz Containers
> >       • Janjira Containers
> >       • Serrana Containers
> >       • Nesta Containers
> >       • Knox Containers
> >
> > In order to choose one name, I’m going to create a poll and let everyone
> vote in a few days.
> > But before doing so I’d like to check if there are more proposals. So if
> you can think of any other name, please add it to [1]. Be creative :-)
>
> The Linux kernel is starting to use 'Coco' as an abbreviation for
> Confidential Computing.  It's short and easy.
>

Coco was actually our first pick however if you look at github you will see
that Coco and anything that starts with Coco is taken :-).

If anyone has an idea how to solve that then we can add some coco variant
to the list as well.

Thanks.


>
> ( 'cocon' is too close to cocoon that already exists.
>   'coconut' is already taken on github. )
>
> Dave
>
>
> > Cheer,
> > Samuel.
> >
> >
> > [1]
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1E3GLCzNgrcigUlgWAZYlgqNTdVwiMwCRTJ0QnJhLZGA/edit?usp=sharing
> >
> >
> >
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