I generally think that “NEM” or the “New Economy Movement” can be a house name or brand name with many products under that name and even companies too.
To me it is like “Star Wars”. Yes, the first movie is really called Star Wars: A New Hope, but when it first came out, people only called it “Star Wars” and the “New Hope” tag wasn’t really used anywhere on any marketing materials or when people talked. It wasn’t until later on that there were additional movies that the name “A New Hope” caught on. Now there are Star Wars TV shows, books, movies, and games but they are still “Star Wars”.
I think in the future, we could have other “NEM” branded products. Like a lightning network that works interchangeably with both NIS1 and Symbol to connect them in layer 2. Or a DID product on a private side chain of Symbol utilizing 0 knowledge proofs. Or whatever, I don’t know (and I just made up those examples so don’t get excited). But it would be nice to me that IF we went from 2 products in this house to more than 2, to keep the name “NEM” associated with them even if they do have a different name people commonly call them. I think it will make each product stronger, just like anything “Star Wars” is automatically a success the moment it is associated with that original Star Wars movie.
To me the confusing part is really having on a name for the original NEM chain that everyone could agree on to make this concept stick. Does it get a tag like “A New Hope” in the way of “NIS1” or “XEM”? Or we just leave it “NEM”?
I think this is a great community discussion.