RE: xbone naming

Stefan Savage (savage@cs.washington.edu)
Mon, 24 Aug 1998 15:45:50 -0700

I like Access the best of all of these. I don't think it matters that
its been used for other things. I never believe the acronyms are
required... but it should be easy to come with one if need be... here
are a few off the top of my head:
A Computing and Communication Environment in the Service of
Science
ok, maybe too pompous... perhaps:
Available Computers and Communications for Evaluating Shared
Services

Anyway... I'm sure we can generate an acceptable acronym if need be.

other suggestions (still on the "Bone" front unfortunately) include:

interBone (connects between networks)
Ortho (orthopedics is the branch of medicine dealing
with the
correction of deformities in bones)
SPLINT (also for setting/fixing bones)
(BTW, I was just thinking today, that the detour
approach to routing
traffic between different networks could be called
"deboning" ;-)

- Stefan

-----Original Message-----
From: tom@emigrant [mailto:tom@emigrant]
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 1998 4:02 PM
To: syn@cs
Subject: xbone naming

I had a couple thoughts last night about names for the
project formerly known as xBone:

Babel (invoking multi-lingual, pre-standardization experiments)

Melee (similar)

Legation (a set of agents with special powers)

Access (most appropriate word supporting the CC acronym (computing
and communication) other than Mecca and Accent, but I have no idea
what the other letters would stand for)

tom