Re: backronym proposal: Universal Resource Linker

 > I'm more or less with Roy on this, I think.  The sad fact is that, IMO,
 > neither the status quo nor any of these proposals will be truly
 > evocative for the average non-technical user of the Web.  In my
 > experience, many such people are intimidated by any of the three letter
 > initialisms we're discussing, including URL (regardless of how
 > rationalized).
 >
 > That being the case, I think we might as well stick with the terminology
 > that has, as Roy says, been negotiated with some care among those who
 > prepared the current normative specifications.  If someone wants to
 > promote a bit more widely some truly suggestive term (Web address
 > strikes me as imperfect, but probably the best of the lot), well maybe.
 >   Just rotating the preferences among 3 letter techy-codes every decade
 > or so seems to me a losing proposition.  YMMV.

strongly +1

=JeffH

Received on Monday, 19 April 2010 21:24:24 UTC