- From: Eric Prud'hommeaux <eric@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2004 02:02:13 -0500
- To: Dave Beckett <dave.beckett@bristol.ac.uk>
- Cc: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>, RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:34:59AM +0000, Dave Beckett wrote: > > On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 17:04:50 -0600 > Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> wrote: > > > > > I'm looking for issues we can close easily, and the name > > thing seems pretty well settled: I'm getting pretty much > > uniformly positive feedback on SPARQL. > > > > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/issues#languageProtocolName > > > > But people then ask "what does it stand for?" > > I've not heard many people ask for > > > I think the original proposal was > > "Simple Protocol and RDF Query Language" > > -- > > http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-dawg/2004JulSep/0500.html > > > > but we haven't propagated that expansion into the draft(s). > > It's in the <acronym> expansion in the sparql query document, part 1. > How it appeared there was an editorial choice. > > > I propose that we do so. > > > > Hmm... what become of "ACTION EricP: set up a naming poll using WBS"? > > http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/ftf3-brs#sec-abs > > > > I guess we dropped it somehow. It doesn't seem worthwhile to me. > > Does anybody still want to do that? > > Since I came up with it, how about this: > SPARQL Protocol and RDF Query Language > > since S=Simple isn't so true 1/2 :) +1 it just appeals to my sense of humor -- -eric office: +1.617.258.5741 NE43-344, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02144 USA cell: +1.857.222.5741 (eric@w3.org) Feel free to forward this message to any list for any purpose other than email address distribution.
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