Hi Rob and James, Regarding “consist in”:
While this construction appears in past RFCs and is not incorrect, we find a number of readers are not familiar with it and think that an error exists. We would not update text that uses it appropriately; however, the familiarity issue may be something to keep in mind for future writing. Please let us know if we can be of further assistance. RFC Editor/mf On Jun 6, 2018, at 1:00 AM, Rob Shakir <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi James, > > Thanks for reporting this. > > I think that "consists in" is actually what is meant here. The Cambridge > dictionary definition is a useful reference. > > IMHO, the intention of this sentence is to say that the important/necessary > characteristic of the alternate strategy is that it provides protection along > the shortest path. This might not be the most common English, but it does > seem to be correct. > > The RFC Editor folks are likely to be the experts here -- I'd welcome their > comment too. > > Thanks, > r. > > On Wed, Jun 6, 2018 at 12:53 AM James Bensley <[email protected]> wrote: > On 6 June 2018 at 08:21, RFC Errata System <[email protected]> wrote: > > Original Text > > ------------- > > An alternative protection strategy consists in > > Alternatively, "consists of", is "in" the wrong preposition here? > > Kind regards, > James. _______________________________________________ spring mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/spring
