Re: Bikeshed: Renaming the VC HTTP API

+1 to HAPIness, just because this is a bikeshed thread.

On Tue, Jul 20, 2021, at 6:48 PM, Drummond Reed wrote:
> Beside the credit Mike gets for the most creative sentence in this thread so far, I must admit that "VC-HAPI" is easy to see, say, and spell. And it's technically accurate to boot.
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> =Drummond 
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> On Tue, Jul 20, 2021 at 3:29 PM Mike Varley <mike.varley@securekey.com> wrote:
>> Instead of HTTP, how about “Web”? VC-WAPI (vic-wapi)____
>> Or we can drop the ‘ttp’ and go for VC-HAPI – (vc-happy)____
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>> This vc-wapi is interfering with my waci but not my fapi, gets along pretty well with chapi but now I need a gnap. Rar.____
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>> MV____
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>> *From: *Mahmoud Alkhraishi <mahmoud@mavennet.com>
>> *Date: *Tuesday, July 20, 2021 at 10:08 AM
>> *To: *Mike Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io>, Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com>
>> *Cc: *W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
>> *Subject: *Re: Bikeshed: Renaming the VC HTTP API____
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>> I agree with Michael's point about the audience, this IMO is intended for a technical audience and should therefore make sense to devs.____
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>> On the proposed names so far:____
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>> +0.8 to VC API --> Nice and simple and wouldn't mind it.
>> +0.7 to VC Storage and Transport API --> No real issues with it it just seems hard to say VCSTAPI doesn't roll of the tongue.____
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>> + 1 to VC Exchange ( and to answer Manu's earlier question I think cross-trust boundary exchange would be in scope) --> I personally think this is by far the best name.____
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>> Not at all a fan of VC Delivery or including HTTP in the name. we can easily place the restriction to HTTP only in the spec itself.____
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>> *From:* Mike Prorock <mprorock@mesur.io>
>> *Sent:* Tuesday, July 20, 2021 9:56 AM
>> *To:* Ted Thibodeau Jr <tthibodeau@openlinksw.com>
>> *Cc:* W3C Credentials CG <public-credentials@w3.org>
>> *Subject:* Re: Bikeshed: Renaming the VC HTTP API ____
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>> Good points by Ted.  Redundancy in naming is rather irritating. ____
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>> Variants of:____
>> "Verified Credentials API"____
>> or____
>> "VC Storage and Transport API"____
>> make sense to me.  ____
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>> 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:____
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>> "Verifiable Credential Interchange" or "Verifiable Credential Exchange" ____
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>> which also seem sane and descriptive to me____
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>> 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).
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>>> 
>>> 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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