On Fri, 17 Jan 2003, Andrew Ross wrote: > Regarding an acronym... > > >SELP/SLP/RLP > > The idea of SSMP was floated earlier. Simple Syslog Message Protocol. A > quick search tells me letters are not used elsewhere. > > Or Rainer's idea of SRSP - Simple Reliable Syslog Protocol. > > Comments? I think SELP is the best one so far, it's pronouncable, which goes a long way in my book, and it's not likely to be confused with anything. SRSP is one of those things that's likely to get letters transposed- not quite as bad as some letter combinations, but still not ideal (I'm sure there's a list somewhere of how not to do not obviously pronouncable abbreviations- I know that one of the resons for us changing company names a few years ago- besides the obvious 'new VP of marketing' at the time was that people constantly transposed ICSA to ISCA- apparently C and S shouldn't go near one another, I think M and N fall in the same bucket.) The only caveat I'd add is that it's worth Googling for trademark holders prior to moving too far forward. "SELP +is +a trademark +of" returns zero hits. Paul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Robertson "My statements in this message are personal opinions probertsat_private which may have no basis whatsoever in fact." probertsonat_private Director of Risk Assessment TruSecure Corporation _______________________________________________ LogAnalysis mailing list LogAnalysisat_private http://lists.shmoo.com/mailman/listinfo/loganalysis
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