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Subject: [B.A.T.M.A.N.] New name for batman-adv?
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> You are right - the situation still is a bit messy. I think Andrew has a point 
> saying that "adv" might be rejected. I even could imagine that the name 
> "batman" causes some irritation. ;-)
> 
> A while back Justin Dean suggested a new name for the protocol:
> stateless proactive adhoc networking protocol
> Does not sound too bad in my opinion. Other opinions ?

spanp

Not the nicest of acronym. It would be good to be able to build a
short, 3 letter abbreviation of the acronym for the network device
name. That is one thing that batman->bat0 has going for it.

      Andrew