Hi Ian
The URL is not the problem.
M2M is not just an Eclipse term; I thought it was widely used in the
technology space and academia, where of course M2T and T2M are also
in use. However a quick Google suggests that M2M is primarily
Eclipse and that while 'Model-2-Model' is the first listing for M2M
on Wikipedia that is also just for Eclipse. The case for squatter's
rights for common usage is therefore not strong.
However as soon as a new M2M takes over, all other Modeling M2M's
will come under pressure. The container project is not a problem,
amd where scoped by modeling, it doesn't need a change anyway.
One real problem is on the Wiki where M2M is prolific. A new M2M
would need to provide numerous compatibility links so that all
frozen references to e.g. m2m/atl are redirected.
Taking a random Wiki HIT;
What happens to "org.eclipse.m2m.atl.core.ant"
So another real problem is what happens to existing Eclipse plugin
names?
I'm sorry, I can see the container project changing, (preferably to
something short like MtoM, but there are too many other engrained
usages that will be difficult to discontinue.
Old M2M is already out there and much of it cannot change, so a new
M2M can either create chaos or choose a new name. Surely this is
standard commercial practice, a new business chooses a new name. My
own company when rebranding chose a duplicate and so has to make do
with thalesgroup.com.
Regards
Ed Willink
On 18/10/2011 17:23, Ian Skerrett wrote:
Hi,
The Eclipse Foundation is getting ready to launch an industry
working group in the machine-to-machine space. The industry
accepted term for machine-to-machine is m2m.
Unfortunately this overlaps with the Model-to-Model project short
name and url. We would like to request that the Model-to-Model
project change their url from eclipse.org/m2m to maybe
eclipse.org/model2model. This would allow the working group to
use eclipse.org/m2m.
We are hoping that since Model-to-Model is a container project
that this is not a big deal. We hope to announce the M2M working
group in two weeks, so it would be appreciated to get feedback in
the next couple of days.
Thanks
Ian
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