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On Thu, Dec 11, 2014, Mark McClain <mark at mcclain.xyz> wrote:
> 
>> On Dec 11, 2014, at 8:43 AM, Jay Pipes <jaypipes at gmail.com
>> <mailto:jaypipes at gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> I'm generally in favor of making name attributes opaque, utf-8 strings that
>> are entirely user-defined and have no constraints on them. I consider the
>> name to be just a tag that the user places on some resource. It is the
>> resource's ID that is unique.
>>
>> I do realize that Nova takes a different approach to *some* resources,
>> including the security group name.
>>
>> End of the day, it's probably just a personal preference whether names
>> should be unique to a tenant/user or not.
>>
>> Maru had asked me my opinion on whether names should be unique and I
>> answered my personal opinion that no, they should not be, and if Neutron
>> needed to ensure that there was one and only one default security group for
>> a tenant, that a way to accomplish such a thing in a race-free way, without
>> use of SELECT FOR UPDATE, was to use the approach I put into the pastebin on
>> the review above.
>>
> 
> I agree with Jay.  We should not care about how a user names the resource.
>  There other ways to prevent this race and Jay’s suggestion is a good one.

However we should open a bug against Horizon because the user experience there
is terrible with duplicate security group names.