Re: Proposed change to fully spelled out EXI WG name

On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 7:54 PM, Takuki Kamiya <tkamiya@us.fujitsu.com>
wrote:


> 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.


As an alternative plan, I propose that "EXI" be kept but that it not stand
for anything.  Such "orphan initialisms" are common:  to take three
internationally known examples, AT&T no longer stands for "American
Telephone and Telegraph", IBM no longer stands for "International Business
Machines", and KFC no longer stands for "Kentucky Fried Chicken".  No
alternative expansions of these acronyms are in use.

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