Actually guys I'm of the same conviction.

HOWEVER, I don't think we can change the name at this moment.


I choose NMBR as a code name for the project when still associated to Texel, than afterwards there was no immediate reason to change the name and now because of the rapid developments in all area's I don't think I can change the name without causing disrupting confusion.

I think our best bet is this stick with the NMBR name for now and refer to it in talking as "NuMBeR". When the situation has stabilized enough in a while, say two or three years from now we can put through a name change.

Actually this also one thing I learned at F16 project. I still get mail to F16HTclass@hotmail.com and see people referring to 16HT's and we only carried that name and mail adress for the first 3 months in 2001. So no, I really don't think we can change the name now, although I would love to do that. But we can chance it before the identifier NEW has become meaningless.

Maybe in 2 to 3 years call it WMBR = Wind dependent Measurement Based Ratings ? I should have done that in 2002. To late now. But then again I didn't know in the beginning that the two wind dependent series of numbers would be a permanent feature. It is like naming Chicago Window 98 when the project was started in 1992, you just don't know if it will be launched in 1997 (win 97) or 1999 (win 99) stuff like that.

So please use the name NMBR for now Colin and Jake.

Wouter

(P.S) maybe we can find a new meaning for the N part. I mean we are stuck with the abbreviation but not so much with the acronym. )