Naming and project identity

NUIF is the current working name and repository slug, not yet a cleared standards trademark.

A public reconnaissance found prior acronym use in an old Nexus User Input Framework and in a 2024 computer-vision paper, plus unrelated uses. None currently appears to occupy the same open UI-authoring interchange category, but collision risk is non-zero.

The architecture therefore separates human branding from protocol identity. Stable schema namespaces, extension IDs and version identifiers must not depend on a product trademark remaining unchanged.

Before v0.1 branding is promoted outside the research project:

1. perform repository/package/domain/trademark clearance in key jurisdictions;
2. decide whether NUIF is an acronym or simply a proper project name;
3. reserve crate/package/extension namespaces;
4. define conformance-mark governance separately from the open specification;
5. make any rename before third-party persisted documents become common.

Canonical source.