RE: [idn] Renaming "AMC-Z"

["Hollenbeck, Scott" <shollenbeck@verisign.com>]

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Tim Langdell [mailto:tim@xtns.net]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 03, 2001 1:21 PM
>To: Hollenbeck, Scott; IETF idn working group
>Subject: Re: [idn] Renaming "AMC-Z"
>
>
>Just to bear in mind that this name will be used widely around the globe in
>association with the registration and WhoIs of IDNs. Thus entirely
>non-technically minded people will be faced with and have to deal with this
>name.  (We've already had one person who asked us why the "RACE" of the
name
>was being requested -- "what does the ethnic background of the name have to
>do with anything ..." )
>
>I'd thus prefer a name that is easy to remember, short, not confusing, and
>which is non-techie-sounding (there can I suppose always be the full
>technical name that has "-63" or whatever attached to it which is used in
>the tech community but not burdened on the global consumer/business
>communities).

Asking a bunch on engineers to come up with a marketeer-satisfying name may
prove to be an interesting challenge!  Nonetheless, there's nothing much
simpler and easier to remember than Paul's suggestion of just "ACE" or
"ACE-1".

<Scott/>