Re: A better name than ISM

[Toerless Eckert <eckert@cisco.com>]

Ok, so this is how i perceive the problem:

a) For just the technology, it's completely arbitrarily how we abbreviate
   the "IP Multicast service as defined in RFC1112".

b) From the perspective of being able to completely confuse users, it's
   ideal to change the abbreviation every once so often. I certainly
   would rather like to avoid this for the documentation i have to provide
   to our users.

Is there any way on how we could please converge on some abbreviation for
the "IP Multicast service as defined in RFC1112" - and i mean an abbreviation
that would then be at least highly recommended to be used in all IETF
related papers (rfcs, etc..) ? Od course, everybody is still free to
call it the "IP Multicast service as defined in RCC1112".

Just wondering. Given that it's just a word, it shouldn't be too difficult.
Up to a few weeks ago, i would have thought of simply voting on this to be
an easy solution to the issue, but in the meantime i've learned that there
are certain challenges associated with counting votes here in this country...

Cheers
	Toerless