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Yadis Naming
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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)
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.