Re: WIMS> CIM> What is the W for?

From: Ira McDonald (blueroofmusic@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jan 05 2009 - 14:54:35 EST

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    Hi,

    I also support W for "Working Group".

    ISMS is the the name of the active IETF Working Group that just finished
    the SNMPv3 over SSH and SNMPv3 over DTLS (Datagram TLS) specs.
    Not a good choice for us.

    Cheers,
    - Ira

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    On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Petrie, Glen <glen.petrie@eitc.epson.com> wrote:
    > I support W as "Working group"
    >
    >
    >
    > ________________________________
    >
    > From: owner-wims@pwg.org [mailto:owner-wims@pwg.org] On Behalf Of
    > Richard_Landau@Dell.com
    > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:10 AM
    > To: wims@pwg.org
    > Subject: WIMS> CIM> What is the W for?
    >
    >
    >
    > Re: changing the name of the WIMS group to reflect its broader scope
    >
    > If the goal is to retain the acronym WIMS, we must construct a suitable
    > backronym. The problem is the W, since the absorbed PMP items are not
    > "Web-based." The current charter draft suggests "Wide-scope."
    >
    > A few minutes with a dictionary yielded some other possibilities.
    >
    > Interesting but rejected:
    > - Wagner's (practical)
    > - Wonderful (boastful)
    > - Whiz-bang (flippant)
    >
    > Possible:
    > - Well-known
    > - Working group for, as in "Working group for Imaging Management Semantics."
    >
    > So long as the W does not stand for Washington, or for any other meaning of
    > "W" recently related to Washington, it's okay.
    >
    > Of course, we could always change the name slightly, since lots of
    > interesting words end in MS for Management Semantics. For example, Imaging
    > Systems Management Semantics, or ISMS. Has kind of a nice ring to it.
    >
    > rick
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