Re: New acronym/term...
Nathaniel Borenstein (nsb@nsb.fv.com)
Mon, 26 Feb 1996 07:38:40 -0500 (EST)
Excerpts from mail: 24-Feb-96 Re: New acronym/term... Dave
Crocker@imc.org (1499*)
> Having two decades of doing horrible acronyms (e.g., mmdf) or, worse,
> none at all (sigh, RFC822) I've been sensitized to the need for good
> ones and often count as my primary contribution to the MIME effort
> convincing Nathaniel to do a good acronym.
Well, Dave made several contributions, but this was indeed an important
one. As it turns out, I love devising acronyms, so I'll contribute a
few candidates here. Some of them are even serious.
The best I've come up with so far, I think, are:
MARS -- MIME Architecture for Reasonable Security
MISO -- MIME Integrated Security Objects
But I also came up with:
MAMAS -- MIME Augmented with More Added Security
SLALOM -- Security Largely Achieved as a Layer Over MIME
COMMIE -- Cryptographic Optimizations for Mostly-Integrated MIME Encryption
EMPATHIC -- Extensions to MIME Permitting Additional Theoretically
Hoped-for Integrated Cryptography
and, in a more cynical moment:
CHIMERA -- Cryptography Hopes to Integrate MIME Extensions Really Artfully
and my very favorite:
DIMSUM -- Dcrocker Inserting More Security Under MIME
We now return you to your regularly-scheduled arguments. -- Nathaniel
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Nathaniel Borenstein <nsb@fv.com>
Chief Scientist, First Virtual Holdings
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