RE: [idn] Renaming "AMC-Z"

[Rick H Wesson <wessorh@ar.com>]

Might I suggest BACE - Best ACE.

I think thats what we did is pick the best one...

-rick


On Wed, 3 Oct 2001, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:

> >-----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/>
>