TxAuth Name Game

Update (5th of June): the selected name is GNAP - Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol

A collection of name suggestions for what was referred to as TxAuth. Candidates are sorted by how well they meet the objective criteria.

Name No ™ [1] No ® [2] Googlable [3] Expanded Acronym
AAuthZ✓✓✓Alternative Authorization Protocol
AZARAP✓✓✓AuthoriZation And Resource Access Protocol
AZARP✓✓✓AuthoriZed Access to Resources Protocol
BeBAuthZ✓✓✓Back-end Based Authorization Protocol
BYOAuthZ✓✓✓Build-Your-Own Authorization Protocol
CIOAuth✓✓✓Client Intent Origin Auth
CompAuthZ✓✓✓Componentized Authorization Protocol
CPAAP✓✓✓Comprehensive Privileged Authentication Authorization Protocol
CTAP✓✓✓Comprehensive Token Access Protocol
DAZARAP✓✓✓Delegated AuthoriZation And Resource Access Protocol
DisAuthZ✓✓✓Dismembered Authorization Protocol
DIYAuthZ✓✓✓Do-It-Yourself Authorization Protocol
GATAR✓✓✓Grant Authorization To Access Resources
GNAP✓✓✓Grant Negotiation and Authorization Protocol
GranPro✓✓✓GRAnt Negotiation Protocol
IDPAuthZ✓✓✓Intent Driven Protocol for Authorization
NIRAD✓✓✓Negotiation of Intent Registration and Authority Delegation
PAuthZ✓✓✓Protocol for Authorization
ReAuthZ✓✓✓Reimagined Authorization Protocol
RefAuthZ✓✓✓Refactored Authorization Protocol
TIAAP✓✓✓Tokenized Identity and Access Protocol
TIARP✓✓✓Tokenized Identity and Access Resource Protocol
TIDEAuth✓✓✓Trust via Intent Driven Extension Auth
TIDYAuth✓✓✓Trust via Intent Driven Yield Auth
TIEAuth✓✓✓Trust via Intent Extension Auth
TINOA✓✓✓This Is Not OAuth
txauth✓✓✓Truly eXtensible Authorisation
xauthz✓✓✓eXtensible authoriZation protocol
  1. No confusion with another protocol, major software project ™, or IETF/IRTF WG name
  2. No existing registered trademarks ® in international classes: 9, 16, 36, 41, 42
  3. Less than 1 million hits on Google
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