[infod-wg] Action 49

[Steve Fisher]

Action 49 says "Reconsider the manifest name and to give it a name
that is consistent with its content."

Shailendra replied:

  Webster dictionary defines Manifest as "To be the evidence off", The
  content of the manifest reveals routing information of a message.

I don't like this and so the action has been transferred to me. The
compact OED gives for its use as a noun (see http://www.askoxford.com):

1 a document listing a ship's contents, cargo, crew, and passengers. 
2 a list of passengers or cargo in an aircraft. 
3 a list of the wagons forming a freight train.

In all cases it is a list of contents and says nothing about how the
contents have been processed or routed.

A manifest file in a java jar archive serves the same purpose. 

If I look at the full OED - which in print occupies around 12 large
volumes I learn that

The noun's derivation is:

[a. F. manifeste vbl. n., f. manifester to manifest. Cf. Sp. manifiesto, Pg.,
+It. manifesto, of similar formation, though accidentally coinciding in form
+with the adj.]

with meanings:

 1. gen. A manifestation, indication. Now rare.
 2. A public proclamation or declaration; an open statement; a manifesto.
 3. The list of a ship's cargo, signed by the master, for the information and
+use of officers of Customs. Also, a similar list of freight or passengers
+carried by a train or aeroplane; hence a fast freight train (chiefly U.S.).
+Also transf.

The verb's derivation is:

  [ad. F. manifest-er, or L. manifest-Qre, f. manifest-us (see prec.). Cf. Sp.,
+Pg. manifestar, It. manifestare.]

with meanings:

    1. trans. To make evident to the eye or to the understanding; to show
+plainly, disclose, reveal.

   b. Of things: To be evidence of, prove, attest.

   c. with obj. a clause or accus. with inf., or ?compl.

   ?2. To expound, unfold, clear up (a matter).

   3. a. To display (a quality, condition, feeling, etc.) by one's action or
+behaviour; to give evidence of possessing, reveal the presence of, evince.

   b. refl. Of a thing: To reveal itself as existing or operative. Similarly in
+pass.

   4. To record or enumerate in a ship's manifest.

   5. intr. To make a 'manifestation' or public expression of opinion.

   6. Spiritualism. Of a ghost or spirit (refl. and intr.): To reveal its
+presence, make an appearance.

   7. Hist. In Spanish law, to protect (a person) by a 'manifestation'. (See
+manifestation 4.)


So the verb manifest is related to the intended meaning. However as a
desciption of data the meaning of the noun must be used and here
Webster seems to agree with the OED.

So in summary: manifest is definitely the wrong word to use here.

I would simply call the field:

RouteLog

or

RouteHistory

or 

Routes


Does anybody have any preferences?

Steve