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<div>Direct Fabric Interface or Fabric Direct, .. ?</div>
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-------- Original message --------<br>
From: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com> <br>
Date: 03/05/2014 2:18 AM (GMT-06:00) <br>
To: openframeworkwg@lists.openfabrics.org <br>
Subject: Re: [Openframeworkwg] revisiting the OFWG name <br>
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<div class="PlainText">On 3/4/2014 9:09 PM, Hefty, Sean wrote:<br>
> In today's meeting we revisited trying to come up with a name for<br>
> this workgroup and the work that it is doing. To that end, I went<br>
> back through the email archives in hope that we can narrow down and<br>
> select some option by the next meeting.<br>
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> These are the basic options that have been thrown out so far:<br>
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> Keep current name - OpenFrameworks<br>
> OpenFabricFrameworks<br>
> FabricFrameworks<br>
> OFA Agnostic Process Direct IO API Working Group<br>
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> To this end, I've been using the terms libfabric and fabric<br>
> interfaces, without hearing any objections (so far), so I will also<br>
> propose something simple:<br>
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> Open Fabrics Interfaces (Working Group)<br>
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> I do like the term PDIO that Doug came up with, but it immediately<br>
> makes me think of Network Direct by Microsoft.<br>
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I give kudos to Microsoft. They have the best name of the bunch.<br>
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