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From: kwe@buit13.bu.edu (Kent England)
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Subject: Re: wanted:  service mark labels
Summary: Ask the vendor
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Date: 24 Oct 90 14:23:41 GMT
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In article <1990Oct23.205959.5997@portia.Stanford.EDU> jqj@jessica.Stanford.EDU (J Q Johnson) writes:

>...I'd like some easy and
>user-comprehensible way to provide labels describing the type of
>service on each live outlet in a wall plate or harmonica.  None of the
>standard cable labelling vendors (AMP, Panduit, etc.) seem to have what
>I want.  Does anyone have good suggestions?
>
>Some sites use color-coded dots or custom text adhesive tags.  The
>former isn't very mnemonic for the user and the latter for typical
>single-site quantities is pretty expensive.  What I'm really looking
>for is a vendor who sells sheets of selfadhesive Apple logos, pictures
>of terminals, etc.  An alternative would be a little adhesive menu that
>a tech could check off when she activated a plug.
>
	We have used both colored dots and text adhesive tags.  I'm
afraid that icons won't help much either unless they are very
specific.  For example, does the Apple icon mean LocalTalk or
EtherTalk or what?  Just anticipating a problem.

	I was at Educom last week and there was a nice person trying
to stick fuzzy little Apple logos on everyone's name tag.  She seemed
to have a million of them.  Perhaps Apple would give you some labels?
If Apple could do that, perhaps we could persuade Cabletron and
Synoptics et al to make up a "10BaseT" icon (standard, please) and
provide users with rolls of labels with every concentrator.  Maybe
cisco and Xylogics would provide icons that indicate terminal ports.
Anyone think any of this might work?  Get each vendor to provide
standard stick-on labels with their products.

	Do we need an RFC to iconify all these services?     :-)

	--Kent