Re: [Txauth] Name criteria

I pick 6 chars since all the protocols I could think of were <= 6 chars in
their short form, but I'm fine just stack ranking them.

Would we agree that all other things being equal, shorter is better?

The related dimension would be number of syllables. A smaller number of
syllables makes it easier to say.

... and to argue with Mike ... because it is fun ... :)

The short form for OpenID Connect is OIDC ... and the previous version is
just OpenID ... and while rarely used, SCIM is System for Cross-domain
Identity Management (which as we all know was made up to match the acronym
which originally was Simple Cloud Identity Management)

TCP/IP is the common term used for the wire transport. (6 chars)

On Mon, Apr 27, 2020 at 6:57 PM Mike Jones <Michael.Jones@microsoft.com>
wrote:

> I agree with Justin that the “short” criteria is overly restrictive.
> Remember too, that many protocols have a short and a long name, but some
> don’t.  Some common ones with both long and short names are:
>
>               Internet Protocol (IP)
>
>               Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)
>
> An example without a short name is:
>
>               OpenID Connect
>
> An example that effectively only has a short name is:
>
>               SCIM
>
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>
> All of these kinds of reasonable names should be eligible for
> consideration, not all of which are short.
>
>
>
>                                                        -- Mike
>
>
>
> *From:* Txauth <txauth-bounces@ietf.org> *On Behalf Of *Justin Richer
> *Sent:* Monday, April 27, 2020 6:37 PM
> *To:* Dick Hardt <dick.hardt@gmail.com>
> *Cc:* txauth@ietf.org
> *Subject:* Re: [Txauth] Name criteria
>
>
>
> 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:
>
>    1. No confusion with another protocol or major software project
>    2. no existing registered trademarks in related classes
>    3. Less than 1M results in Google
>    4. Short (<=6 chars)
>    5. Descriptive of protocol (this criteria is subjective)
>
> Desirable:
>
>    1. Straightforward to pronounce
>    2. Easy to spell
>    3. Easy to read
>
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