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How about "Workgroup for Imaging Management Semantics" -- that way we don't need to explain the missing "G." dhw David H. Whitehead Development Engineer Lexmark International, Inc. 859.825.4914 davidatlexmarkdotcom <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td width=40%>"Ira McDonald" <blueroofmusic@gmail.com> Sent by: owner-wims@pwg.org 01/05/09 04:21 PM <td width=59%> <table width=100%> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>To</div> <td>"Harry Lewis" <harryl@us.ibm.com>, "Ira McDonald" <blueroofmusic@gmail.com> <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>cc</div> <td>"Petrie, Glen" <glen.petrie@eitc.epson.com>, wims@pwg.org <tr valign=top> <td> <div align=right>Subject</div> <td>Re: WIMS> CIM> What is the W for?</table> <table> <tr valign=top> <td> <td></table> </table> <tt>Hi, </tt> <tt>So, "Working Group for Imaging Management Semantics (WIMS)" </tt> <tt>Bill is quite right that Services is not the correct scope. </tt> <tt>A precedent is IETF PWG (Printer Working Group, originally chartered for RFC 1179 and later for RFC 1759). </tt> <tt>Cheers, - Ira </tt> <tt>Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect) Chair - Linux Foundation Open Printing WG Blue Roof Music/High North Inc email: blueroofmusic@gmail.com winter:</tt> <tt>579 Park Place  Saline, MI  48176 734-944-0094</tt> <tt>summer: PO Box 221  Grand Marais, MI 49839 906-494-2434</tt> <tt>On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Harry Lewis <harryl@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > So that would be "Working group for Imaging Management Services"? > (Semantics?) That'd be OK. > > Also, I'd have no problem retiring both PMP and WIMS and migrating into ISMS > or some other agreeable new name. > > Also, I'd have no problem just keeping WIMS as is and not getting too > concerned that everything in the bucket is not "Web based". > > Harry Lewis > Program Manager - Intellectual Property & Open Standards > Phone: 303-924-5337 > e-mail: harryl@us.ibm.com > infoprint.com > > > P Think before you print > > > "Petrie, Glen" <glen.petrie@eitc.epson.com> > Sent by: owner-wims@pwg.org > > 01/05/2009 12:21 PM > > To > <wims@pwg.org> > cc > Subject > RE: WIMS> CIM> What is the W for? > > > > > I support W as  "Working group" > > ________________________________ > From: owner-wims@pwg.org [mailto:owner-wims@pwg.org] On Behalf Of > Richard_Landau@Dell.com > Sent: Monday, January 05, 2009 11:10 AM > To: wims@pwg.org > Subject: WIMS> CIM> What is the W for? > > > Re: changing the name of the WIMS group to reflect its broader scope > > If the goal is to retain the acronym WIMS, we must construct a suitable > backronym.  The problem is the W, since the absorbed PMP items are not > "Web-based."  The current charter draft suggests "Wide-scope." > > A few minutes with a dictionary yielded some other possibilities. > > Interesting but rejected: > - Wagner's     (practical) > - Wonderful    (boastful) > - Whiz-bang   (flippant) > > Possible: > - Well-known > - Working group for, as in "Working group for Imaging Management Semantics." > > So long as the W does not stand for Washington, or for any other meaning of > "W" recently related to Washington, it's okay. > > Of course, we could always change the name slightly, since lots of > interesting words end in MS for Management Semantics.  For example, Imaging > Systems Management Semantics, or ISMS.  Has kind of a nice ring to it. > > rick > > ---------------------- > Richard_Landau(at)dell(dot)com, Stds & System Mgt Architecture, CTO Office > +1-512-728-9023, One Dell Way, RR5-3, MS RR5-32, Round Rock, TX 78682</tt>