FYI. IDEAS as an IETF acronym has been taken since about 1989 or so. It stood for Internet Design Engineering and Analysis Series which was a fairly short lived document series that preceded the Internet Drafts process. This led to at least one internet routing company noting in its collateral that it implemented IDEA 9. Mike FWIW. I agree with John about the obnoxiousness of "ideas@xxxxxxxx" as a mailing list name. Sent from my iPad > On Oct 4, 2017, at 12:57, John C Klensin <john-ietf@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > However, I strongly urge that, if the charter is accepted in > principle, you move away from from acronyms that are likely to > create far more confusion than the desire for demonstrating > cleverness or cuteness can possibly be worth. "ideas" itself is > an example. It may be an an acronym that was cleverly matched > to the WG name (or vice versa) but it is also a word that > implies an entirely different meaning, one that is fairly > misleading relative to the intended WG's topic and more suited, > if it is suitable at all for a WG name, for something exploring > or brainstorming a much broader range of topics. An > "ideas@xxxxxxxx" mailing list is particularly obnoxious in that > regard.