SDD stands for Structure of Descriptive Data - doesn't seem to me to do the job, and I just thought it would be sensible for the standard to have a different name from the group.

Of course, if we use SDD in the end, then the bottle of port is unclaimed.

By the way, I'd better correct my last email. Make that a cheap bottle of Portugues port.

-k

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Croft" jrc@ANBG.GOV.AU To: TDWG-SDD@LISTSERV.NHM.KU.EDU Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:43 AM Subject: Re: Name for the standard

...

By the way, there's a bottle of fine Portuguese port for whoever comes up with the final name. Of course, if no-one can come up with anything, the SDD group at Lisbon will have to drink the port as consolation.

just our of interest, what was wrong with SDD? Is it really something

that

needs a catchy name to market to the outside world? Won't it just become part of the information infrastructure that everyone takes for granted?

jim

~ Jim Croft ~ jrc@anbg.gov.au ~ 02-62465500 ~ www.anbg.gov.au/jrc/ ~