Re: [HASMAT] moving forward - WG name

[Marsh Ray <[e-mail]>]

Perhaps it depends on what the group wants to do?

Websec is nice. Not a revolutionary name.

It seems appropriate for this sentence from the proposed charter:
> The goal of this working group is to standardize a small number of
> selected specifications that have proven to improve security of Internet
> Web applications.

Personally, I think the current name is pretty awesome.

- Marsh



On 08/23/2010 11:17 AM, Tobias Gondrom wrote:
>   believe "websec" was proposed during BOF meeting and actually "hasmat"
> reminded me of "hazardous materials" at first, so would support to go
> for a different name if people like to.
> Have no problem if the name is general, after all the charter and not
> the name determines WG scope (and as the name will stay even if you may
> recharter at some point, so general can rather be an advantage for a name).
>
> htsec is fine for me, too (though personally I may slightly prefer websec).
> Would be against webappsec due to ambiguity and actually adding "app" in
> the middle doesn't help and makes the name unnecessarily long (there are
> practical benefits from short WG names).
>
> Tobias
>
>
> would agree with websec
>
> On 08/23/2010 11:50 AM, Kai Engert wrote:
>>   On 20.08.2010 20:08, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:
>>> 3. Name. Some people have said that "HASMAT" isn't very descriptive of
>>> the subject matter, and that we might want something like "WEBSEC". As
>>> long as folks don't think "WEBSEC" means that we'd be working on
>>> everything under the sun related to the security of the web, I'd be fine
>>> with a name like that. Other suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> "websec" sounds indeed very general, while the meaning of "hasmat"
>> focuses on a smaller subset.
>>
>> I wanted to propose "WebAppSec", but there's already
>> http://www.webappsec.org/
>>
>> What about HTSEC ? (hypertext security)
>>
>> Kai
>>
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