Subject: RTP - conflicting acronyms

From: "Marcia Peters (8-444-4380)" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 95 10:22:40 EST

FYI, here's the current status of our acronym conflict ...Marcia

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Date: Sun 26 Mar 95 01:21:39 PST
From: Stephen Casner <[email-masked]>
Subject: RTP - conflicting acronyms
To: [email-masked]

I'm responding as Chairman of the IETF Audio/Video Transport working
group to your message about the conflict for the acronym "RTP".  We,
too, have been working on and publicly discussing our protocol under
this acronym for quite some time, at least since October 1992.  There
are a number of companies involved in the IETF work, and products both
in development and already shipping (some based on draft versions of
RTP, some current).

However, since this is not a patent or trademark dispute, finding
precisely who used the acronym first or counting companies is not
meaningful.  Both our groups have some investment in this name.

I will ask for input from my working group about the pros and cons of
changing the name, and will discuss it during the next IETF meeting
week after next.  My initial reaction is that the overlap between our
two communities may be sufficiently small that this is not really a
serious problem.

Steve Casner
USC/Information Sciences Institute
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