TITLE: Are k-spaces named for Kelley?
QUESTION [9 upvotes]: On page 58 of Mark Hovey's book Model Categories, he states the following definitions:

"A subset $U$ of a space $X$ is
  compactly open if for every continuous
  $f:K\rightarrow X$ where $K$ is
  compact Hausdorff, $f^{-1}(U)$ is open
  in $K$... A space $X$ is called a
  $k$-space, or Kelley space, if every
  compactly open subset is open."
  (emphasis mine)

My question is whether $k$-spaces are called $k$-spaces for John L. Kelley or for some other reason. A quick google search shows me that Kelley studied these spaces a lot, and that he wrote about them as $k$-spaces.'' I interpret this as evidence that they are not named for him, since it's fairly uncommon to hear about a (good) mathematician X going around calling things by his own name. Further evidence for this is a statement an older professor made to me that $k$-spaces were studied by Mac Lane before Kelley. 
On the other hand, the word Kelleyfication appears in Mac Lane's Categories for the Working Mathematician (on page 182 of the first edition) as a way to change the topology on a Hausdorff space in order to make it a $k$-space. Furthermore, Mac Lane calls compactly generated Hausdorff spaces Kelley spaces.

1) Can anyone clear this mystery up for me? Does anyone know the first place these spaces appear in the literature, or the first place the category of $k$-spaces was put forth as the ``right'' category of spaces?
2) Is it standard in the literature to assume $k$-spaces are Hausdorff?

Hovey does not, but Mac Lane does. I'm curious about whether there is consensus on this issue.

REPLY [6 votes]: Just to add a bit to the history, the first time the exponential law was given for Hausdorff k-spaces was I believe in my  DPhil thesis, submitted 1961, see PtA available here, which was circulated to the obvious places. In my first paper, (1963),  also available here, I wrote:
"It may be that the category of Hausdorff k-spaces is adequate and convenient for all purposes of topology."
In my second paper, (1964), I used the category of  Hausdorff spaces and functions continuous on compact subsets, and showed it was what we now called cartesian closed. (My thesis contains an attempt at showing the idea of what we now call monoidal closed, since in my thesis I had lots of internal homs and associated products, usually a tensor.)
I did not understand final topologies at the time and so did not come up with the definition for the non Hausdorff case, but you can find that in my book Topology and Groupoids.
Several people wrote about the non Hausdorff case, but an important application is to fibred exponential laws which were developed by Peter Booth following some ideas sketched by R. Thom. See Booth, Peter I. The section problem and the lifting problem. Math. Z. 121 (1971), 273–287.
I also wonder whether the category defined in
Johnstone, P. T.
On a topological topos.
Proc. London Math. Soc. (3) 38 (1979), no. 2, 237–271.
is indeed adequate and convenient for all purposes of topology, in particular can cope well with fibred exponential laws, since being a topos is a stronger condition.
There are also the purposes of analysis, for which see
Kriegl, Andreas; Michor, Peter W. The convenient setting of global analysis. Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, 53. American Mathematical Society, Providence, RI, 1997.
So the term "convenient" has had a good run!
See also convenient.