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Subject: Re: bikeshed for all!
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Quoting Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>:

> I need a word to use to describe the network view one is currently on..
> e.g. if you are usinghe second routing table, you could say I've set xxx to 1
> (0 based)..
>
>
> current;y in my code I'm using 'universe' but I don't like that..

I think you just said it best yourself, you need a name for a "network  
view", so why not just call it a "view"?  Other things use the same  
terminology like a DNS "view" or an SQL "view" and I think it makes  
sense in this case as well.