Re: [Txauth] WG name brainstorming - please participate!

[Dick Hardt <[e-mail]>]

Reminder to participate in name suggestions! The cutoff for suggestions is
Friday.

Nigel has created a list here:

https://nigelhamilton.com/pages/txauth-name-game.html

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On Fri, May 1, 2020 at 2:08 PM Dick Hardt <[e-mail]> wrote:

> We now have our criteria for names, and we can now start the next step in
> our process, brainstorming names!
>
> Here is the criteria again:
>
> Required:
>
>    1. No confusion with another protocol, major software project, or
>    IETF/IRTF WG name
>    2. no existing registered trademarks in related classes
>    3. Less than 1M results in Google
>    4. Descriptive of protocol (this criteria is subjective)
>    5. Not an offensive meaning to a member of the mail list
>
> Desirable:
>
>    1. Straightforward to pronounce
>    2. Easy to spell
>    3. Easy to read
>    4. Shortish
>
> We won't be judging or ranking names at this time -- we are brainstorming
> names that are descriptive of the protocol.
> We are hoping we can get the WG approved in the telechat May 21,
> so ideally we would have r*ough consensus on the name by May 18.*
>
> Let's brainstorm for a week, and then we can stack rank them on our
> objective criteria, and then vote on the top candidates.
>
> I'll start by submitting my favorite:
>
> XAuth - Extensible delegated Authorization and Authentication protocol, or
> just view the X as a placeholder and XAuth is OAuth ++
>
>