Re: Bikeshed: Renaming the VC HTTP API

Good points by Ted.  Redundancy in naming is rather irritating.

Variants of:
"Verified Credentials API"
or
"VC Storage and Transport API"
make sense to me.

Non technical decision makers we typically deal with (including in non-tech
markets such as Ag) are familiar with the term API as a way for programs to
communicate, and if we are specifying an API I am hesitant to remove API
from the name, unless we do something like:

"Verifiable Credential Interchange" or "Verifiable Credential Exchange"

which also seem sane and descriptive to me

Mike Prorock
CTO, Founder
https://mesur.io/



On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 9:49 AM Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com>
wrote:

>
> On Jul 17, 2021, at 11:45 AM, Manu Sporny <msporny@digitalbazaar.com>
> wrote:
> > Not many are enthused by the name "VC HTTP API"; it doesn't exactly roll
> off of the tongue. The catch-all term is also confusing debates (again, see
> the most recent perma-thread about the VC HTTP API).
>
>
> As I suggested the other day (
> https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-credentials/2021Jul/0111.html)
> --
>
>    VC Storage and Transfer API
>
> -- seems appropriate since folks are talking about VCs going
> into Wallets (and similar) as well as VCs being passed from
> Issuer to Holder to Holder to Verifier.
>
> For those who like shorter names, VC-STAPI (vee-see-stappy)
> doesn't seem bad.
>
>
> I also want to discourage any name that combines HTTP with
> Protocol.  It's important to remember that every acronym
> must be expanded at some point, and the "HyperText Transfer
> Protocol ... Protocol" will be sure to get a fair bit of
> notice from the Department of Redundancy Department.  :-)
>
> Be seeing you,
>
> Ted
>
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