brainstorming on naming

[Granqvist, Hans]

"disco" is both a file format and a helper app developed by Microsoft 
in their WSSE web services stack for service discovery.  Most likely
this 
is a challenge to using any term including "disco".

Hans

> -----Original Message-----
> From: yadis-bounces at lists.danga.com 
> [mailto:yadis-bounces at lists.danga.com] On Behalf Of Brian Ellin
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 12:42 PM
> To: Johannes Ernst
> Cc: YADIS List
> Subject: Re: brainstorming on naming
> 
> Jonannes and list,
> 
> To clarify, the "disco" portion of OpenDisco refers to 
> "Discovery".  As in service/capability discovery.
> 
> >From the yadis.org frontpage: "YADIS is an capability 
> discovery system"
> 
> Given your list of ideas below, OpenDisco seems like a very 
> natural choice.  I do see the connection between disco and 
> discotheque, but really don't think it will alienate any 
> users or attract the wrong crowd.  Do discussions about SOAP 
> attract people with a desire to get clean?  I doubt it.
> 
> My two cents,
> 
> Brian Ellin
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 12:01 -0800, Johannes Ernst wrote:
> > I think here are some terms that are "close" what I think we should 
> > express -- maybe somebody has a bright idea combining some of this 
> > with some of what has been said before.
> > 
> > Open
> > Decentralized
> > User-controlled
> > Extensible
> > very, very simple
> > URL-based
> > REST-ful
> > Secure
> > Meta
> > Capabilities
> > Service
> > 
> > 
> > I don't think it necessarily has to say anything about, or 
> have much 
> > affiliation with any of the following:
> > 
> > Identity (it's broader than that)
> > 
> > 
> > Personally, I also think that the thing we are developing 
> here is in 
> > the same category as SMTP, LDAP etc. etc. -- things that 
> techies care 
> > about in order to make things work, but that end users do not care 
> > about, do not understand and don't really need to be exposed to 
> > (except in a configuration dialog perhaps). So I'd rather prefer a 
> > name that sounds more like those techie acronyms, than 
> something that 
> > sounds like it is intended to be blasted all over the front 
> pages of 
> > every web page.
> > 
> > But most importantly, I don't really care much about the 
> name except 
> > that I don't want to be embarrassed saying it in front a crowd of 
> > developers *or* business / money people.
> > 
> > ["OpenDISCO" is a borderline case with respect to the latter -- 
> > imagine you walk by a conference session, don't have an 
> idea what it 
> > is all about and you hear something about "the disco is open"?
> > Somehow that conference session might end up with the wrong walk-in 
> > audience ... especially to European ears, "disco" means 
> "discotheque"
> > aka "dance/nightclub", see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disco ]
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Johannes Ernst
> >   http://netmesh.info/jernst
> > 
> > 
> > 
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