RE: Session session session...

["McLauchlan, Kevin" <Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com>]

 :-)

I think I can type "session" faster than I can remember and type a
keyboard macro.

Really, I wasn't bothered by it until I found myself staring at a
paragraph where the word was used three times, and each time meant a
different "session"
 - one an SSH command-line session (or other, better word) between an
administrator's workstation and the networked security appliance that
s/he is administering, 

 - one an encrypted client-server session between a computer (could be
the same one the admin is using, but not necessarily) and the appliance,
for the purpose of securely passing authentication data, and 

 - one a local physical link (and the encrypted session it engages)
between the computer that's doing the authentication serving and a
handheld device that reads/writes hardware authentication tokens, and
accepts keypad input (something-you-have and something-you-know
two-and-three-factor security).

I could feel my audience getting all sessioned out.  Yet it was kinda
necessary to refer to them all because of the interaction of session
timeouts and other settings.  Y'see why I was groping for a useful
synonym or three? 

According to Fred, possibly none of these ... er... um...
"conversations" actually qualify for the strict definition of session,
but for lack of a better term... I've got sessions coming out my ears.

 - Kevin

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Suzanne Chiles [mailto:suzchiles -at- gmail -dot- com] 
> Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2009 4:13 PM
> To: 'Rick Stone'; 'Fred Ridder'
> Cc: McLauchlan, Kevin; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: RE: Session session session...
> 
> I'm with Fred. You need to be extremely careful about 
> creating new words for
> an important concept that already has a name that is understood
> industry-wide. How will the reader, especially if the reader 
> is a novice to
> this technology, understand the substitution between the 
> concept of session,
> which is well-understood and has known properties, with a 
> another word that
> from the thesaurus? How will the reader know that session is 
> the same as
> conversation or whatever word you choose? Why have two names 
> for the same
> thing?
> 
> In this particular case, I would advise not changing anything. Write a
> keyboard macro to type the word in for you.
> 
> Suzanne
> 
> > 
> > Hi all
> > 
> > Based on what I've seen, I might suggest that 
> "conversation" would work
> > equally as well. After all, isn't a "session" really just a specific
> > "conversation" occurring between two points?
> > 
> > Then again, conversation is 12 letters long and session is 
> only 7. So if
> > you are worrying about repetitive typing, that probably 
> totally defeats
> > the purpose.
> > 
> > Cheers... Rick :)
> > 
> > Fred Ridder wrote:
> > > In the context of communication across a computer 
> network, "session" has
> a very
> > specific meaning and there really is no direct synonym. One common
> definition of a
> > session is that it is a semi-permanent dialog between two end-user
> application
> > processes. If you can find some other single word that captures that
> specific
> > abstract concept, I say go with it.
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