I think that in the interest of keeping things moving, the debian-amd64 group should take a vote on which architecture name shall be used in future Debian releases. While there's been a lot of discussion, thinking and feeling, I think it's time for a decision to be made. Could an admin please set up a survey on the alioth page (https://alioth.debian.org/survey/?group_id=1314)? Poll Choices (in pseudo-alphabetic order): amd64 x86_64 other no preference