Jukka Zitting wrote: >>I'm not convinced the goal in the past was to have multiple >>implementations, vs allowing multiple implementations. > > I think the interpretation of this goal underlies both the naming and > standard issues. In essence, does the Jini community see the project > being proposed as *the* Jini implementation or as *a* Jini > implementation?
Again not to nitpick, but both choices you present assume that there is an agreed upon definition of what "Jini" is, and that it aligns with the contents of the proposed project, and that there is consensus in the community. I don't think any of those hold. :) But despite all of that, I believe you'll find relatively few people in the Jini community who are unhappy with "Apache Jini" as the proposed ASF project name. You will find many different views of what "Jini" is. I think you'll find rough agreement that some large subset of the specs for what's being proposed as the starting point for the project is at the heart of what Jini is, but you'll find disagreement both at the edges and in the middle as to what the heart is, and disagreement as to whether anything else done in the community is or isn't part of "Jini". As for "the" vs "a", despite Sun's best effort in the past to put the "a" label on Sun's implementations of the various specs, the Starter Kit distribution (as a whole) from Sun is I think viewed by many as "the", even though when pressed they will acknowledge that there are other implementations of some of the pieces, and that other implementations of all of the pieces are possible. (I don't find any of this surprising.) Going forward, without a standards process, agreement on what "Jini" is may well be even harder to come by; or depending on how the ASF project evolves, it may become easier and more synonymous with the specs and/or code produced by the project. Right now I don't see anyone in the community really disagreeing about the initial contributions for the project, but I don't think we have consensus on where the project should evolve to; I think that's something that gets worked on during incubation. - Bob --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
