[microformats-discuss] REST-discuss list, naming

[Dr. Ernie Prabhakar]

On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Robert Bachmann wrote:

> SHAR is already used for SHell ARchive, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar.

Doh!  I meant to Google-check that.  Thanks. :-(

Still, its awfully close: the phonemes "sh" and "r" make a good  
combination.

  Time for a game of "acronomyious", where we choose the acronym and  
reverse-engineer its meaning.  According to FreshMeat, there don't  
seem to be anyprojects with the names:

* shur ("sure")
* sher (a form of Urdu poetry)
* crush ('rush' was taken)
* brush
* thresh
* shire

Of these, my favorite is BRUSH:

B rowseable
R EST
U sing
S emantic
H TML

It's a nice metaphor -- repainting the web in semantic colors. :-)

-- Ernie P.












> Dr. Ernie Prabhakar wrote:
>> Hi Dimitri,
>>
>>> How about RAX:
>>>
>>> * RESTful
>>> * API
>>> * with XHTML
>>
>>
>> My main concern with "X" in an acronym is that it ties us too closely
>> to XML (a la AJAX et al).  Even though we nominally use XHTML, the
>> conceptual breakthrough is using semantic HTML as a way to do REST.
>>
>> Hmmm. "SH" is promising...
>>
>> SHAR:
>> * Semantic
>> * HTML
>> * APIs for
>> * REST
>>
> SHAR is already used for SHell ARchive, see
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar.
>
>
> Robert
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