WIMS> CIM> What is the W for?

WIMS> CIM> What is the W for?

Ira McDonald blueroofmusic at gmail.com
Mon Jan 5 16:21:41 EST 2009


Hi,

So, "Working Group for Imaging Management Semantics (WIMS)"

Bill is quite right that Services is not the correct scope.

A precedent is IETF PWG (Printer Working Group, originally
chartered for RFC 1179 and later for RFC 1759).

Cheers,
- Ira

Ira McDonald (Musician / Software Architect)
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On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 2:59 PM, Harry Lewis <harryl at 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 at us.ibm.com
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>
> P Think before you print
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>
> "Petrie, Glen" <glen.petrie at eitc.epson.com>
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> I support W as  "Working group"
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> Subject: WIMS> CIM> What is the W for?
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>
> 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
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