RE: [idn] Renaming "AMC-Z"

[Paul Hoffman / IMC <phoffman@imc.org>]

At 2:35 PM +0900 10/4/01, Martin Duerst wrote:
>At 13:28 01/10/03 -0400, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote:
>
>>Nonetheless, there's nothing much
>>simpler and easier to remember than Paul's suggestion of just "ACE" or
>>"ACE-1".
>
>I think ACE is already used for the general concept of mapping to
>ASCII only.

As far as I can tell, the term "ACE" is only used in this WG and nowhere else.

>  If we use ACE, quite a bit of the archives of this
>group will become difficult to read for people who think that
>ACE is ACM-Z.

For all three people who read the archive...

>  As for ACE-1, although we cannot exclude further
>ACEs, I think it would be a bad idea to give the impression that
>we are starting a series.

Exactly why calling it "ACE" is probably better.

>Some ideas: What about ZACE or Z-ACE, or ACE-Z ? I don't know
>what the Z in ACM-Z stands for, but it seems to have served its
>purpose well up to now.

ZACE indicates other ACEs just as well as ACE-1 does.

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