[georss] KML into OGC-still called "Keyhole"?

[Sean Gillies]

It's time for a backronym.

Kartography ML (think "Krab")
Knock-off ML (as it was a fork of GML)

I'm sure there are some positive backronyms, but they would be pretty 
obscure.

Sean

Jeff Harrison wrote:
> Your argument is interesting, but not very convincing. The difference is
> that your example referenced a technology, the example I provided was a
> specific vendor company name. 
> 
> I still think it's inappropriate for an individual vendor's company name to
> be integrated in the Title of an open specification or a recommendation for
> technology that could become an open specification.  In the end, OGC members
> can vote however they like though.
> 
> Regards,
> Jeff
> 
> Jeff Harrison | CEO | The Carbon Project | www.thecarbonproject.com 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: georss-bounces at lists.eogeo.org [mailto:georss-bounces at lists.eogeo.org]
> On Behalf Of Allan Doyle
> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 2:50 PM
> To: georss at lists.eogeo.org
> Subject: Re: [georss] KML into OGC-still called "Keyhole"?
> 
> 
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 14:30, Jeff Harrison wrote:
> 
>> Seriously now.  As a long-term member of the open-geospatial  
>> community I
>> think it's not appropriate for an individual vendor's name to be  
>> integrated
>> in the Title of an open specification or a recommendation for  
>> technology
>> that could become an open specification.
> 
> You mean like "OpenGISR Simple Features Implementation Specification  
> for OLE/COM" which I suspect you voted for as TC rep for USATEC? :)
> 
> Ok, so it wasn't named "OpenGISR Simple Features Implementation  
> Specification for Microsoft" but it might as well have been.
> 
> Why deny history? If it started out as Keyhole, there's nothing wrong  
> with that.
> 
> 	Allan
> 
>> Regards,
>> Jeff
>>
>> Jeff Harrison | CEO | The Carbon Project | www.thecarbonproject.com
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Joshua Lieberman [mailto:josh at oklieb.net]
>> Sent: Monday, March 05, 2007 11:47 AM
>> To: Jeff Harrison
>> Cc: georss at lists.eogeo.org
>> Subject: Re: [georss] KML into OGC-still called "Keyhole"?
>>
>> Jeff,
>>
>> WKML - world's knowledge markup language...
>>
>> --Josh
>>
>> On Mar 5, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Jeff Harrison wrote:
>>
>>> I guess the really stupid question is - If KML goes into OGC does
>>> the "K"
>>> still stand for "Keyhole"?
>>>
>>> Or should it be changed to a "G" - for the "Google Markup  
>>> Language" ;)
>>>
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Jeff
>>>
>>> Jeff Harrison | CEO | The Carbon Project | www.thecarbonproject.com
>>>



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Sean Gillies
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