Collision-Safe Naming

Use standardized, collision-resistant naming for public identifiers—especially versioned module paths and generated-code symbols.

Apply this in two common cases:

1) Module/version identifiers

• Tag releases with proper semver (e.g., v4.0.0), not just v4.
• Ensure versioned import paths match the major version (e.g., update imports to .../pkg/iptables/v4 when moving to a v4-tagged release).

2) Constrained API fields (enums)

• Prefer enum over string when the field has a fixed set of allowed values.
• Choose enum value names that won’t collide under generated-language scoping rules; use a consistent prefix based on the full enum name.

Example (proto):

message LinuxContainerSecurityContext {
  enum CgroupMountMode {
    CGROUP_MOUNT_MODE_READ_ONLY = 0;
    CGROUP_MOUNT_MODE_WRITABLE  = 1;
  }

  CgroupMountMode cgroup_mount_mode = 18;
}

Result: builds don’t unexpectedly treat versions as SHAs, imports stay consistent across major versions, and generated symbols remain stable and collision-free.