[Fiware-technical-committee] Feedback needed Name of Context Information Management API

[gilles.privat at orange.com]

Dear  François, Clara, all


I am sorry I have to disagree publicly (in a friendly  way ☺) with my colleague François on this

I understand it is a difficult and potentially unsettling  message to convey to our users, but  there are many compelling  arguments for dropping  NGSI completely  in favor of C3IM. You may remember we started the technical discussion behind this at the end of  2015 within FI-CORE, and it is certainly  a problem that it took so long to converge, but the ETSI CIM group had to get started to become the engine of this transition.

To focus here just on the NAMING issues, (assuming we all agree on the rationale for the actual  transition from NGSI to C3IM, and we will have to come up with a presentation and memo expounding all the strong TECHNICAL justifications for this transition) :


·         NGSI is a meaningless and vacuous acronym

·         it refers to an obsolete telecom-centric standard for which  FIWARE was the only user ever

·         we are, as you all know, not compatible anymore with the original OMA NGSI standard…

By contrast

·         C3IM is a new standard that will have an  ETSI stamp, with strong backing from the Commission and a group of ISG partners extending beyond FIWARE

·         C3IM does have a meaning, by contrast to NGSI (see attached 2 slides) !

·         The technical choices behind C3IM  make it possible for FIWARE to deliver on and enlarge its promise of openness, and we have to advertise this strongly  through this new name

·         C3IM relies on a future-proof data model that is both easily understood by practitioners  (“property graphs” , as used in graph databases) and compatible with RDF and linked data and we also have to advertise this by this new name


De : fiware-technical-committee-bounces at lists.fiware.org [mailto:fiware-technical-committee-bounces at lists.fiware.org] De la part de francois.richard at orange.com
Envoyé : vendredi 15 septembre 2017 10:49
À : Pezuela, Clara; José Manuel Cantera; fiware-technical-committee at lists.fiware.org
Objet : Re: [Fiware-technical-committee] Feedback needed Name of Context Information Management API

I totally agree with Clara. Confusion has to be avoided. Why it I not possible to keep NGSI with a new definition of acronym?

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De : fiware-technical-committee-bounces at lists.fiware.org<mailto:fiware-technical-committee-bounces at lists.fiware.org> [mailto:fiware-technical-committee-bounces at lists.fiware.org] De la part de Pezuela, Clara
Envoyé : vendredi 15 septembre 2017 10:13
À : José Manuel Cantera; fiware-technical-committee at lists.fiware.org<mailto:fiware-technical-committee at lists.fiware.org>
Objet : Re: [Fiware-technical-committee] Feedback needed Name of Context Information Management API

Dear Jose Manuel,

FIWARE is now quite identified with NGSI, and we are using such word everywhere when we talk about FIWARE. Don’t you think that change of name will be initially confusing? I am not saying I don’t understand the change and that things have to evolve, but I would take care of how we communicate the message and be sure that we are doing well the transition from one word to another word to avoid people got lost or that they perceive a wrong message.

Here my two cents

Best regards

Clara Pezuela
Head of IT Market
Research and Innovation Group
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From: fiware-technical-committee-bounces at lists.fiware.org<mailto:fiware-technical-committee-bounces at lists.fiware.org> [mailto:fiware-technical-committee-bounces at lists.fiware.org] On Behalf Of José Manuel Cantera
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Subject: [Fiware-technical-committee] Feedback needed Name of Context Information Management API

Dear all,

There is a formal proposal on the table (currently supported by ETSI and Orange) of naming the Context Information Management API as C3IM. (Cross-Cutting Context Information Management). Nice thing about this proposal is two-fold:

A/ It keeps the letters C,I,M in the letters but at the same time avoids colliding with “CIM” a very overloaded acronym.
B/ It is pronounced similarly to CIM if you see the “3” as en e ;)
C/ It has the word “Context” in it

So, it seems to meet various requirements. This is an important decision that may affect FIWARE in the future as, if this initiative succeeds, then no longer it will be talked about FIWARE NGSI but about C3IM.

So, please send us your feedback as soon as possible. We can deal with this during next TSC, (don’t know whether we have one next Monday)

Many thanks, Best

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