I concur with Rob. And here is a reference to the Merriam-Webster dictionary<https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/iff> that defines the term. As opposed to some other abbreviations, it is, AFAIK, quite unambiguous.
Regards, Sasha Office: +972-39266302 Cell: +972-549266302 Email: [email protected] From: spring [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob Shakir Sent: Monday, June 18, 2018 5:19 PM To: James Bensley <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected]; [email protected]; [email protected]; BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A <[email protected]>; Clarence Filsfils (cfilsfil) <[email protected]>; Alvaro Retana <[email protected]>; [email protected]> <[email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected]; Rob Shakir <[email protected]>; Martin Vigoureux <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [spring] [Editorial Errata Reported] RFC7855 (5384) iff is common language in most technical/academic documentation I believe. Whilst I am sympathetic to wanting to ensure that RFCs are as easy to parse as possible for as wide an audience as possible I think that we have to have some level at which we assume the reader can refer to external references should they not be familiar with the terminology used. The RFC Editor team is good at keeping authors honest around this bar. James - I would encourage you to review the documents that are in last call in the working group for these kinds of clarifications if you have time please. Making these edits before we cut an RFC is preferable.. Thanks! r. On Mon, Jun 18, 2018, 12:30 AM James Bensley <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 8 June 2018 at 09:58, Adrian Farrel <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > James, > > I believe "iff" was intended as written. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/If_and_only_if > > Adrian Hi Adrian, That seems like a handy acronym and I'm not against it's use. I'm just questioning how commonly used it is in networking circles and thus, whether this document should have a glossary or not? After a quick scan of "recent" RFCs it's not in common use (only one other RFC apart from this one); $ for i in `seq 5000 8500`; do wget "https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc$i.txt";; done $ grep " iff " *.txt | awk '{print $1}' | uniq rfc7242.txt: rfc7855.txt: Cheers, James. ___________________________________________________________________________ This e-mail message is intended for the recipient only and contains information which is CONFIDENTIAL and which may be proprietary to ECI Telecom. If you have received this transmission in error, please inform us by e-mail, phone or fax, and then delete the original and all copies thereof. ___________________________________________________________________________
_______________________________________________ spring mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/spring
