[microformats-discuss] REST-discuss list, naming

[Jacob Ham]

Why is it so bad that SHAR is already used? They are used in two different
contexts. Its not trademark'd or a copyrighted :-)

Cheers,

Jake

On 10/19/05, Dr. Ernie Prabhakar <drernie at opendarwin.org> wrote:
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> On Oct 19, 2005, at 8:26 AM, Robert Bachmann wrote:
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> > SHAR is already used for SHell ARchive, see
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar.
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> Doh! I meant to Google-check that. Thanks. :-(
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> Still, its awfully close: the phonemes "sh" and "r" make a good
> combination.
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> 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:
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> * shur ("sure")
> * sher (a form of Urdu poetry)
> * crush ('rush' was taken)
> * brush
> * thresh
> * shire
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> Of these, my favorite is BRUSH:
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> B rowseable
> R EST
> U sing
> S emantic
> H TML
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> It's a nice metaphor -- repainting the web in semantic colors. :-)
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> -- Ernie P.
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> > 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
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> > SHAR is already used for SHell ARchive, see
> > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shar.
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> >
> > Robert
> > --
> > Robert Bachmann <rbach at rbach.priv.at> (OpenPGP KeyID: 0x4A5CCF10)
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