If we go this way and want to make profiles and the Platform (a.k.a. "Full" profile) stand on the same line, then I would strongly request from the Platform project to introduce a naming strategy that would reflect that. Because if we have "Platform", "Web Profile" and "Core Profile", their names are clearly not giving the message that they are equally endorsed.
To me, with this naming, "Platform" will always stand out, while profiles would be curated subsets of the Platform. That's why many people use the term "Full" profile, so that we can refer to "Full Profile", "Web Profile", and "Core Profile, in a unified way. But I hear from the Jakarta Platform spec team that this isn't what they want.
I think the Jakarta Platform team should clarify whether we want to treat the Platform spec and profiles equally (and change the naming to reflect that), or we want to prefer the Platform spec over profiles, which is implied by the current naming. Otherwise we'll continue having confusion about this forever.
Ondro