On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 06:40:04PM +0100, Harald Welte wrote:
So we migh simply move to a NITB that is split up in BSC, MSC/VLR and HLR/AUC, and call the components OsmoBSC (exists already), OsmoHLR (exists already) and OsmoMSC (which is still called CSCN). Or we keep
I like OsmoMSC because it's a name familiar to all GSM network operators, while every time I write CSCN I feel that I have to explain it because we invented it. The VLR is also officially a component of the MSC, right?
I'd be ok with calling it MSC before the SMSC is separated, because then we won't have a rename in our main history besides the move from OsmoNITB to OsmoMSC. I can rename CSCN to MSC on the branch and then CSCN is poof, gone.
We already have OsmoCSCN named in some blog posts / wiki and a project with this name on osmocom.org, I guess the sooner we converge to a long term name (OsmoMSC) the better, to minimize the spread and confusion.
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