Re: Proposed change to fully spelled out EXI WG name

+1 I like it.

Stephen

On 10/21/16 4:54 PM, Takuki Kamiya wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since the start of the working group, the focus of this WG has been on how to 
> make XML interchange more efficient between applications. We will further 
> continue this effort by making improvements to what we have achieved as EXI 
> and its related specifications.
>
> As we informed the audience of this public mailing list in August 
> (please see [1]), the WG is working on making JSON exchange more efficient 
> by applying EXI to JSON. We are recently also exploring the idea of applying 
> EXI to CSS and JavaScript. There are more ideas on the table to apply EXI to 
> HTML5, MathML, etc. (see [2])
>
> Reviewing how best position these ongoing work in relation to our current 
> charter [3], we started to fiddle with the idea of reflecting the widening scope 
> of our work to the working group name.
>
> The Working Group agreed that it should seek to change the name of the 
> working group to better represent what we want to achieve while preserving 
> the acronym "EXI". Changing the acronym would seem more difficult. Among 
> the causes for the difficulty is that the WG page URL [4], for example, contains it. 
> Therefore, we do not propose to change the acronym, and the WG will be still 
> called as "EXI" WG. 
>
> The plan is that the acronym "EXI" will stand for "Efficient Extensible Interchange" 
> instead of "Efficient XML interchange." This change is to indicate EXI is not 
> only for XML, all while causing no changes to the acronym.
>
> If you have any comments or questions, please let us know as soon as possible.
>
> Thank you,
>
> [1] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-exi/2016Aug/0004.html
> [2] https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-exi/2016Sep/0001.html
> [3] http://www.w3.org/XML/2015/05/exi-charter.html
> [4] http://www.w3.org/XML/EXI/
>


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