[mdx] a reminder about terminology

[Ian Young]

At the risk of channeling RMS's crusade for proper naming of GNU/Linux…

"MDX" was invented as a contraction for "MetaData eXchange" quite a long time before development began on the protocol we're discussing.  The specification we are talking about is, however, called "Metadata Query Protocol".  There's no X in that.  There's also no notion of "exchange" in the specification.  It's a protocol for querying (at present, in a fairly constrained way), not exchanging.

If we're going to refer to the metadata query protocol, please say that or use an abbreviation other than MDX. md-query is the one that Chad used in the earliest Internet-Draft document name, and I've retained that.  It's not a bad option.  If you really want to use a TLA, use MDQ and let's leave MDX for the more general concept which we haven't written a protocol for yet.

	-- Ian



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