On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Jeremy Haile <[email protected]> wrote:
> My problems with AplSec are: > > a) Doesn't intuitively mean much (e.g. "Apple Sec? Is this something for > the iPhone or Macs?") Don't think "Apple". It is just a natural inclination of mine to pronounce something that looks like Aplsec into "Apple Sec". It has nothing to do with Apple, and I don't think anyone would mistake it for such, because it would always be referenced as one word: Aplsec. Just my opinion though. > b) Hard to spell when you hear it out loud. (e.g. Most people would > probably type "apple sec" into google) Even if they did, I bet google would show our site first ;) > > c) Sort of confusingly close to the name TripleSec, also an Apache security > project - is that bad or good? I thought about this and I _think_ it is a good thing - The TripleSec team would likely integrate with JSecurity, forming a nice 'named' layer, probably. > > > Jeremy > > > > On Dec 16, 2008, at 1:32 PM, Les Hazlewood wrote: > > Ok. I think I got it. Something that makes sense, kinda rolls off the >> tongue, has good alphabetical ordering, and allows a broad umbrella of >> functionality, and based off of english words that directly correspond to >> our feature set: >> >> Apache Aplsec >> >> Prounounced like "Apple Sec", similar to the pronunciation of the liqueur, >> Triplesec. APLlication SECurity. >> >> Although Shiro seemed somewhat agreeable, it is kind of a correlation leap >> to come back to security - no easy tie-in or obvious recognition to >> application security. >> >> There are also NO results for a full US Trademark and Name Search (all >> fields, either live or dead records). No products or projects with that >> name that I can find. >> >> Also, I guess one benefit of having a name without the 'J' at the front is >> that we can (if the project team so chooses) start to support other >> languages, like ActionScript for Flash/Flex applications, or C# for >> windows >> apps, etc. Just a thought. It may never come in to play, but hey - I'm >> brainstorming... >> >> Whaddya think? >> >> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Les Hazlewood <[email protected] >> >wrote: >> >> On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Emmanuel Lecharny <[email protected] >>> >wrote: >>> >>> >>>> This is a part of the incubation process : >>>> "Make sure that the requested project name does not already exist and >>>> check www.nameprotect.com to be sure that the name is not already >>>> trademarked for an existing software product." >>>> >>> >>> >>> How do we use this service? Does ASF have a login? It doesn't appear to >>> be a free service, but I wouldn't know - it looks very convoluted and not >>> copacetic to performing ad-hoc searches. >>> >>> >>> >
