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On Aug 22, 2012, at 15:28, Gunnar Hellström wrote: > I do not think expansion of TTY to Teletypewriter is a good idea. That tends > to mean the other use of the term TTY, the device that was often used as a > computer operator console terminal a long time ago and still lives in > language around such usage. > > So TTY in this usage is more " A term used in North America for text > telephones, i.e. devices used for text and audio communication in the PSTN > mainly with deaf and hard-of-hearing persons." > > Text telephones or textphones is the international term used by ITU-T ( E.g. > V.18 and F.703 ) 3GPP ( e.g. TS 22.226 ) > IETF ( e.g. RFC 4734 ). > Various countries in Europe have different names for the concept in their > national languages, so text telephone is not specifically European. > > I hope it is clear by combining TTY with text telephone what it referred to, > so that we do not need to drag in a long descriptions of a peripheral item > into the spec. > If you use an acronym, you MUST expand it. If Teletypewriter is not the correct expansion for TTY, then provide the correct one and include an authoritative citation. - - m&m Matthew A. Miller <http://goo.gl/LK55L> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG/MacGPG2 v2.0.17 (Darwin) Comment: GPGTools - http://gpgtools.org iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJQNVAgAAoJEJq6Ou0cgrSPJ9cIALp8BsVkzsmCcs7qwfyF7BMT Ner6+ujUc8EOeXfmGk0LpJic24gyXF62T5jvP5JWcaZuGIgkS62tobzVNQnLRIp2 vWv2ni9M8/L3UCZ5JNLM+rh80iKVieQczhQ3dOG5KCWeb5UiBEWtkiMG7oM+uExc zR4kKmiJVTd1bs+wrsfU3yTuJuFbrvghdtV2a5DFNpzgKi4DvtP76vEH/LKgtV8B xEe500a75XB6LsFikA8mORqS7q6LI+rfcNvOR/wjuivrfPG9RFMCQAt2YhkQtde1 WCS5WMzcJO+UQYz+1556kCfpJr0Hp3Lp4qWNPbfsB6Pwa/F+K2xjgEoX1jY30oE= =/eZf -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
