ICP could refer to the protocol, the blockchain, or the token depending on context. This is leaving people very confused as evident by many posts on social media.
The invisible debt (technical or otherwise) this will cause will be immense over time. I hope you consider that if you agree that naming has been causing problems then the best time to change is now, before more confusing content is produced.
Personally, I like the name Dfinity and I think it would work well as the name of the blockchain which I believe at one point it was called. Dfinity (blockchain) is maintained by the Dfinity foundation.
You then have the ICP (protocol) which dictates how the internet computer works by utilizing the blockchain. Finally you use ICT, internet computer tokens, which you use to convert to cycles (keep this name as it’s related to compute power) to drive the internet computer (IC).
Lastly, “internet computer” while semi accurately conveying it’s like a big computer that runs off the internet (via smart contracts), those two words are too broad and make researching very difficult.
- ICP (protocol) => ICP (internet computer protocol)
- ICP (blockchain) => Dfinity
- ICP (token) => ICT (internet computer token)