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I don't see what the advantage would be? We'd rather keep it "icon-" to make it easier for people who continue to use BS2.0 (and for 3.0 it doesn't make any difference at all).
As bootstrap moved from icon- to glyphicon- prefix for icon font (see https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/issues/6682) I suggest you to move from icon- to whh- or something like this