Re: IETF areas re-organisation steps

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Fri, 26 December 2014 17:12 UTC

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Subject: Re: IETF areas re-organisation steps
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Robert Sparks <rjsparks@nostrum.com> wrote:
    > Why did you settle on a proposed name for the combined upper-layers
    > area that implies it will be sleeping?

Good question.
I figured "NetAPP" was taken :-)

Here is perhaps the worst alternative I can think of:
    Networked Applications and Transport (NAT).

and yet...

I too would like a more inspired name.

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