[Sis-ams] AMS RID BNSC-70

[Scott Burleigh]

Last of the four unresolved RIDs:

    Rename "Memo" field in MAMS PDU as "Primary Data" field to better
    indicate its purpose and relationship to "Supplementary Data" field.

My proposed disposition is this:

    Not accepted.  "Primary Data" does not better indicate the purpose
    of this field, nor its relationship to the "Supplementary Data" field.

We probably shouldn't invest a lot of time in this one, as it is nothing 
but word-smithery.  My point is that "Primary Data" actually doesn't say 
anything useful about the purpose of this field -- only that it's 
"primary" with respect to the (not always present) "Supplementary Data" 
field.  In a sense it comes back to my complaint that the word "data" is 
so overloaded that it doesn't connote anything at all, which it why I 
prefer the marginally less insipid "Memo".

Scott
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