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Re: [Txauth] Name criteria

Justin Richer <jricher@mit.edu> Tue, 28 April 2020 01:37 UTC

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I think the 6-character length requirement is more under “desirable” than “required”. Shorter names are often better, but that doesn’t make a longer name off limits for consideration. 

 — Justin

> On Apr 27, 2020, at 7:19 PM, Dick Hardt <dick.hardt@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Riffing on the work done to name Perl6, here are the name criteria I propose:
> 
> Required:
> No confusion with another protocol or major software project
> no existing registered trademarks in related classes
> Less than 1M results in Google
> Short (<=6 chars)
> Descriptive of protocol (this criteria is subjective)
> Desirable:
> Straightforward to pronounce
> Easy to spell 
> Easy to read
> 
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