Issue 10920: XMI files -- obscure acronyms (smsc) Source: Adaptive (Mr. Pete Rivett, pete.rivett(at)adaptive.com) Nature: Uncategorized Issue Severity: Summary: We should consider a policy for this - there are already some pretty obscure acronyms in the list for those not in the know. For those working with/implementing the spec 'DI' is the phrase we always use - including with customers. Resolution: Revised Text: Actions taken: April 12, 2007: received issue Discussion: End of Annotations:===== te: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 10:42:48 -0400 From: Jishnu Mukerji Organization: Shared Services Lab, HP Software User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060414 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en To: Juergen Boldt Cc: Pete Rivett , Fred Waskiewicz , Svetlana Orlova , andrew@omg.org, Linda Heaton , smsc@omg.org Subject: Re: [bpdm] BPDM XMI - emof file X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at omg.org Juergen, Please file this as an issue for SMSC so that we don't lose track of it. Thanks, Jishnu. Juergen Boldt wrote: a policy sounds good to me..should come from the SMSC -Juergen At 06:56 AM 4/12/2007, Pete Rivett wrote: We should consider a policy for this - there are already some pretty obscure acronyms in the list for those not in the know. For those working with/implementing the spec 'DI' is the phrase we always use - including with customers. Pete > -----Original Message----- > From: Fred Waskiewicz [mailto:wask@omg.org] > Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:56 PM > To: Pete Rivett; Svetlana Orlova; Jishnu Mukerji > Cc: andrew@omg.org; Juergen Boldt; Linda Heaton; smsc@omg.org > Subject: RE: [bpdm] BPDM XMI - emof file > > At 10:51 AM 4/11/2007, Pete Rivett wrote: > > Suggest just DI for Diagram Interchange > > > I think "DI" is too obscure and there's a chance that another "DI" > might show up some day. I am not advocating URIs that cause carpal > tunnel but let's devise abbreviations that don't require a magic > decoder ring to decipher. > > Fred > > ================================================================== > Fred Waskiewicz OMG > Director of Standards 140 Kendrick > Street, Building A, Suite 300 > wask@omg.org / +1 781 444-0404 x127 Needham, MA, USA 02494 > ================================================================== > > Juergen Boldt Director, Member Services Object Management Group 140 Kendrick St Building A Suite 300 Needham, MA 02494 USA tel: +1 781 444 0404 x 132 fax: +1 781 444 0320 email: juergen@omg.org www.omg.org smime18.p7s