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WOFF specification name

From: Levantovsky, Vladimir <Vladimir.Levantovsky@MonotypeImaging.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:35:02 -0400
To: WOFF Working Group <public-webfonts-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <7534F85A589E654EB1E44E5CFDC19E3D049BFAD16A@wob-email-01.agfamonotype.org>
Hello WG,

I would like to raise the following question for your consideration: would it be possible and/or desirable to make a slight change of the name of the specification? This question was prompted by a recent event - at the recent Advisory Board F2F meeting on August 9, 2010 the progress of the WOFF spec and the publication of FPWD were mentioned as an important milestone.

The meeting minutes [1] spelled WOFF as the "Web Open Font Framework" (note the use of the word "Framework" instead of "Format"), which is something I actually like a lot. If it is possible, and if the WG would agree to name it this way - I think we would avoid many questions in the future about WOFF as a "font format". The new name "Web Open Font Framework" would allow to keep the same abbreviation WOFF, and, IMHO, provides a better definition of what we are trying to achieve.

I would appreciate your opinions on this.

Thank you,
Vlad

[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-ac-members/2010JulSep/0031.html (accessible to members only)
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