Yadis Naming

From Yadis

Suggestions for complete names (from brainstorming on the mailing list, in random order, except for two picked out and put at the top):

For the protocol:

• OpenISD (Open Identity Service Discovery)
• ISD (Identity Service Discovery)

Both can be used
ISD for short

• Earl
• OpenDisco
• IDSD (Identity Service Discovery)
• ISCD (Identity Service Capability Discovery)
• IDCD (Identity information Capability Discovery)
• ISP (Identity Service Protocol)
• cadis (capability discovery system)
• scads (simple capability discovery system)
• scad (simple capability discovery)
• Ego, egoCaps
• Delve, delveCaps
• touchCaps
• CXP (Capabilities Exchange Protocol)
• CDP (Capability Discovery Protocol)
• IDP (Identity service discovery Protocol)
• openCaps
• DCX (Declarative Capabilities Exchange)
• MetaAssert
• CapLink

For the identifier:

• myD
• IRL (In Real Life => Identity Resource Locator)

IRL for geeks and standards
myD for humans and marketing

• URI->URL->URU, where "URU" (you-are-you)
• NCI/WCI/NCU/WCU (Net/Web Citizen ID/URL)

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Terms and concepts that should be included in the name:

• Open
• Decentralized
• User-controlled
• Extensible
• very, very simple
• URL-based
• REST-ful
• Secure
• Meta
• Capabilities
• Service
• user centric
• human centric
• power to the person
• person controlled

how about "HURU" (who-are-you) gotta find its acronymation though, although it could be clumsy. It may mean "freedom" in swahili.