At 2:35 PM +0900 10/4/01, Martin Duerst wrote: >At 13:28 01/10/03 -0400, Hollenbeck, Scott wrote: > >>Nonetheless, there's nothing much >>simpler and easier to remember than Paul's suggestion of just "ACE" or >>"ACE-1". > >I think ACE is already used for the general concept of mapping to >ASCII only.
As far as I can tell, the term "ACE" is only used in this WG and nowhere else. > If we use ACE, quite a bit of the archives of this >group will become difficult to read for people who think that >ACE is ACM-Z. For all three people who read the archive... > As for ACE-1, although we cannot exclude further >ACEs, I think it would be a bad idea to give the impression that >we are starting a series. Exactly why calling it "ACE" is probably better. >Some ideas: What about ZACE or Z-ACE, or ACE-Z ? I don't know >what the Z in ACM-Z stands for, but it seems to have served its >purpose well up to now. ZACE indicates other ACEs just as well as ACE-1 does. --Paul Hoffman, Director --Internet Mail Consortium
