Re: [Sedate] The name of the game

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Sun, 10 July 2022 18:35 UTC

Return-Path: <john-ietf@jck.com>
X-Original-To: sedate@ietfa.amsl.com
Delivered-To: sedate@ietfa.amsl.com
Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9DD98C14F738 for <sedate@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 11:35:35 -0700 (PDT)
X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com
X-Spam-Flag: NO
X-Spam-Score: -1.908
X-Spam-Level:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.908 tagged_above=-999 required=5 tests=[BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_NONE=0.001, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no
Received: from mail.ietf.org ([50.223.129.194]) by localhost (ietfa.amsl.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id vJF6Nq0KM1jK for <sedate@ietfa.amsl.com>; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 11:35:33 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from bsa2.jck.com (bsa2.jck.com [70.88.254.51]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by ietfa.amsl.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BE8D7C14F718 for <sedate@ietf.org>; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 11:35:33 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=JcK-HP5) by bsa2.jck.com with esmtp (Exim 4.82 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from <john-ietf@jck.com>) id 1oAbmD-000Kzs-QV; Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:35:29 -0400
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 14:35:29 -0400
From: John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com>
To: Shane Carr <shane@unicode.org>
cc: Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org>, sedate@ietf.org
Message-ID: <F162910E340120C2C58A46D9@JcK-HP5>
In-Reply-To: <CABxsp=mnFcS8t=JSWsjGr_kKbr6GPbJHM1Edm_ke+q5kp5US-w@mail.gmail.com>
References: <2EC7DC82-3C97-4619-91EF-7A2651CB7995@tzi.org> <CABxsp=nwgNX28f2PX97uWOnOFH3npik-OjONJOndoVhVf8dVRg@mail.gmail.com> <B5EF981E574C6619F703EEB9@JcK-HP5> <CABxsp=mnFcS8t=JSWsjGr_kKbr6GPbJHM1Edm_ke+q5kp5US-w@mail.gmail.com>
X-Mailer: Mulberry/4.0.8 (Win32)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: ::1
X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: john-ietf@jck.com
X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on bsa2.jck.com); SAEximRunCond expanded to false
Archived-At: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/sedate/tz7Jcotj2xexeo3sxBeMtpgwfbg>
Subject: Re: [Sedate] The name of the game
X-BeenThere: sedate@ietf.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.39
Precedence: list
List-Id: Serialising Extended Data About Times and Events <sedate.ietf.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/options/sedate>, <mailto:sedate-request@ietf.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/sedate/>
List-Post: <mailto:sedate@ietf.org>
List-Help: <mailto:sedate-request@ietf.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/sedate>, <mailto:sedate-request@ietf.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2022 18:35:35 -0000


--On Sunday, 10 July, 2022 11:17 -0700 Shane Carr
<shane@unicode.org> wrote:

> XDIF = eXtended Date Interchange Format

Easily confused with assorted Data Interchange Formats.  But,
unless there is a problem with "time" (and many of the
discussions have seemed to be more about times than dates
anyway), 

   XDTIF - eXtended Date-Time ...

might work well.

> We have to start the brainstorming somewhere

We do.  And, as someone who is much better at criticizing
acronyms than inventing them, I appreciate your and Carsten
making that start.

    john