On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 05:48:34PM -0400, Ryan Osial wrote:
[snip]
> One thing I'd like to point out is that I dislike the use of the word
> 'standard' in the official name. When I think of standard, I think of
> something coming out of IEEE or an RFC doc. Not something a company
> releases. There are already enough companies with self-proclaimed
> standards. But that might just be me.
>
> Open spec rather than open standard more closely reflects what I have
> come to understand as the goal of this project.
Since I started offering suggestions that included the concept of
"standard", I've continued to think about this.
A standard is basically a logically precise document that nails down
the interface that an object presents to the outside world. A standard is
all about interoperability. It's more important that a standard be
logically complete, stable, and published, than that it be published by an
accredited organization. Standards do sometimes originate with companies or
unincorporated groups, and later receive approval from official bodies if
they're well-written and stable.
This project is creating an exact description of the programming
model, and that qualifies in my mind as a standard.
At this point, I'm thinking that perhaps a name like "Graphios" or
anything else encompassing the word "standard" should be applied to the
standard, and not to the product. A family of standard-compliant boards
could perhaps have its own distinguishing name.
The O clearly stands for "open", but whether the S stands for
"standard", "spec", or something else, might well be left to the perception
of the beholder.
I like something ending in "os" or "ios" because it has something of
an elegant, classical Greek feeling to it. As I said at the beginning, one
of the impressions the name should present to the embedded computing
community is that these boards and drivers are designed right and built for
the long haul. A published binary interface standard is part of that
picture. Does that make sense?
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