Dennis van Dok wrote: > On 29-04-14 21:48, Justin B Rye wrote: >>>> The International Grid Trust Federation (IGTF) maintains a common [...]
> I just learned that the IGTF is in transition. They try to de-GRID-ify > their name, and turn IGTF into a brand name rather than an acronym. You mean like the way KFC officially no longer stands for anything? Well, that transition doesn't seem to have got very far yet. > Apparently this is a common theme in such organisations, but I invite > David Groep (current chair of the IGTF) to comment about the rationale > of this transition. It must have something to do with the fact that > 'Grid' as a buzzword is past its prime. > > So we could stay one step ahead of things by changing the description > altogether and leaving out the acronymic expansion. What do you think? Leaving it out entirely, so it's just: The IGTF maintains a common trust base [...] wouldn't be very friendly for people doing searches on the old name. (And people would wonder why it didn't expand the abbreviation, and Google would leave them assuming you were just lazy.) I was thinking we could do something like The Interoperable Global Trust Federation (formerly the International Grid Trust Federation) maintains a common [...] but if the second version isn't going to last long either then maybe it should be something along the lines of The IGTF (AKA/originally/formerly the International Grid Trust Federation) maintains [...] -- JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian sysadmin, and probably no clue about this particular package -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org