[OSC_dev] Fwd: Application Profiles: oscplanet

[Carl Seleborg]

Hmmm... Please don't choose "Osculate"! :-) To the French people of
the world (all 6 of them), this really sounds inappropriate for a
technology name.

The debates lately are super-interesting, though!

Cheers,

Carl

On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 4:59 PM,  <salsaman at xs4all.nl> wrote:
> On Tue, December 23, 2008 15:43, Gaspard Bucher wrote:
>> There are actually 3+1 levels in this problem, 3 are related to data
>> exchange and 1 is related to the physical layer (connection):
>>
>> 0. if UDP: network connection ===> solved through a common dns-sd
>> service name (zeroconf): "xxxxxx" name (see below)
>> 1. data format  ===> solved through OSC
>> 2. query / get /set  ===> solved through a common ground: "xxxxxxx"
>> conventions / methods
>> 3. application functionalities ===> naming conventions for certain
>> kinds of applications, midi equivalents, etc ===> "OpenMediaControl"
>> for example
>>
>> About the "oscplanet" name, I prefer names that are somehow linked to
>> metaphors ("Bonjour", "zeroconf", "Safari") but I do not really care.
>> It seems to make sense to include something in the name about the
>> distributed nature of the protocol, since the name refers to the full
>> stack above and not only the query system conventions. Propositions
>> (Only lower-case letters, digits, and hyphens; must begin and end with
>> lower-case letter or digit) :
>>
>> "oscnet" (this sounds a bit too much like .NET to me, but it's easy to
>> pronounce and is meaningful)
>> "oscit" (Open Sound Control it, fun)
>> "oscsqp" (Open Soundc Control Server Query Protocol, cryptic)
>> "oscplanet" (seems too related to rubyk metaphors)
>> "openmediacontrol" (illegal = too long)
>> "omc" (french acronym for WTO: please no)
>>
>> My prefered name is "oscit" (fun, sounds good and highlights the
>> *control* part of the thing) with second being "oscnet" (more focus on
>> the network, distributed part).
>>
>> Please feel free to give your view on the names above (or propose new
>> ones).
>>
>> Gaspard
>>
>
> I am sorry, I seem to have missed what you are registering for.
>
> However, I would like to propose "osculate", it seems to fit nicely with
> what we are attempting:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osculate
>
> OSCulate is a semi-archaic English word with several definitions.
>
>    * Often it means "to kiss", sometimes used in a "tongue-in-cheek"
> fashion.
>
>    * Its primary definition is "to bring, or come into, close contact of
> union".
>
>    * In mathematics, it means "to touch so as to have a common tangent at
> the point of contact". See osculating circle, osculating curve, and
> osculating orbit.
>
>    * An additional definition is "to bring into focus or tune, to attune".
>
>
> Certainly a libosculate would be an interesting concept.
>
> Gabriel.
> http://lives.sourceforge.net
>
>
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