Hi team,
In preparation for beginning the IoT name voting next week, I have
gone through the suggestions we have so far. I have two groups below.
The first is a set of names we should reject immediately, along with
explanation. These are largely going to be unusable due to potential
legal issues. It will take a lot of arguing for me to not remove them.
The second set are names that I'm questionable about. My inclination
is to remove them too, for the reasons given, but I'm more open to
argument that they should be left on the list.
If I counted correctly, there are currently 31 submissions. Removing
the first set leaves us with 20. Removing the second set leaves us
with 15. That's still a pretty healthy pool to choose from. I'll set
the deadline for feedback on this to 23:59 UTC on Sunday 15 March (the
same as the name submission deadline).
I'll be around the IRC channel on Monday to discuss any last-minute
suggestions. Otherwise, I'll cull the names in this message on Monday
morning (Eastern time).
== Set 1: Reject ==
* Crown - Name of an IoT company:
http://www.lcrown.com/en/lcrown/
* Orbit - Name of an existing IoT product:
https://www.iotglobalnetwork.com/products/single/id/444/orbit
* Nookless - May be seen as a reference to the Barnes & Noble Nook e-reader
* NanoBlue - Name of a Bluetooth antenna:
https://www.lairdconnect.com/rf-antennas/bluetooth-antennas/nano-blue-ser...
* Conductor - Name of an existing IoT product:
https://www.link-labs.com/conductor-automated-connectivity-and-data-manag...
* Things - Name of an existing IoT platform:
https://thethings.io/
* Light - Name of an existing IoT lighting app:
https://www.iot-light.eu/
* Hub - Name of an existing IoT service:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/iot-hub/
* Altair - Name of an existing company's IoT offering:
https://www.altair.com/iot/
* Compass - Name of an existing IoT company:
https://www.compassiot.com.au/
* Coke Machine - Intentional reference to a trademark
== Set 2: Probably reject ==
* Brim - An SAP feature
(
https://blogs.sap.com/2015/02/11/welcome-to-sap-brim/). This is
probably in a different enough space to not be a legal issue, but we
might want to leave it aside anyway
* Orchestra - Not IoT-related, but several tech sector conflicts
(
https://www.tibco.com/blog/2018/12/04/orchestra-networks-a-holistic-data-...
and
https://www.orchestra.it/platform/ for example)
* Wintermute - Not IoT-related, but several tech sector conflicts
(
https://cryptoslate.com/blockchain-com-ventures-leads-seed-funding-for-wi...
and
https://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/08/30/could-this-new-artifici...
for example)
* HAL2020 - Becomes very confusing next year
* FIDO - The FIDO Alliance is focusing on IOT:
https://fidoalliance.org/internet-of-things/
--
Ben Cotton
He / Him / His
Senior Program Manager, Fedora & CentOS Stream
Red Hat
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