[openib-general] [PATCH 0/6] Tranport Neutral Verbs Proposal.

[Greg Lindahl]

On Tue, Aug 01, 2006 at 01:25:44PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:

> Exactly.  Please don't even try to put brand names (especially if
> they're as stupid as this) in.  We don't call our wireless stack
> centrino just because intel contributed to it either.

Centrino: Intel-only brand name

WiFi: trade association brand-name, not joined by all players

802.11{a,b,g}: technical name of technologies

wireless: an overly generic name that people might think should
   include bluetooth, wireless usb, etc etc.

OpenFabrics is not a single company brand name, it is the name of
the community that's actually implementing this software stack,
like 'Gnome' or 'KDE'.

BTW, I've had meetings with about 5 startups that began like, "We have
an rdma device, but it's not actually RDMA as defined by that IEEE
Committee." And these devices don't work like that definition. So
there's considerable difference of opinion as to what RDMA means.

-- greg