Hi.
A question as to whether I'm the only one who is bothered by a
trend and, if not, if it is time for the community to give the
IESG and the RFC Editor some advice.
I note that my concern is _only_ about standards-track
documents: they are widely referenced and cited by title as well
as
John C Klensin wrote:
The expansion of it
as an abbreviation doesn't provide significant information and
may, indeed, add to confusion.
It also makes it harder to search rfc-index.txt, since names can span
line boundaries and abbrevations can't.
Now, as far as I have been able to tell,
At 12:08 PM -0400 7/14/04, John C Klensin wrote:
Again, am I the only one who is bothered by this?
No, not all. The RFC Editor is about to release revisions to the
S/MIME specs where MIME is spelled out, for example.
And, if not,
can we ask the IESG to think a bit about this matter going
At 12:56 PM 7/14/2004, John Stracke wrote:
John C Klensin wrote:
The expansion of it
as an abbreviation doesn't provide significant information and
may, indeed, add to confusion.
It also makes it harder to search rfc-index.txt, since names can span line
boundaries and abbrevations can't.
Now, as
Hi -
From: Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Now a different viewpoint. When looking at drafts as they go by on
id-announce, nothing gets me more annoyed than reading the title and
--On Wednesday, 14 July, 2004 12:13 -0700 Randy Presuhn
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Hi -
From: Daniel Senie [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Names of standards-track RFCs
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Now a different viewpoint. When looking at drafts as
Agreed. Spelling things out becomes even more important as
documents age. Consider, for example, IMP in some of the
older RFCs. I suspect many IETF participants have never seen
or used one, yet this was probably considered well known when
those RFCs were written.
Or consider the RFC that
--On Wednesday, 14 July, 2004 18:06 -0700 Christian Huitema
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Or consider the RFC that describes Classical IP and ARP over
Automatic Teller Machines...
What did you say an ARP was? Some sort of fuzzy alien, perhaps?
A digestive sound made after excessive SIPPING ?
