Re: IPv6 WG Last Call:draft-ietf-ipv6-optimistic-dad-01.txt

[Doo Timbir <doo090@xxxxxxxx>]

Dear Greg,

I feel the most important thing here is for us to
comprehend what is written 'whether in American
English or contemporary Queen's English'.

A grasp of the 'gist'behind the written word should be
much more emphasised on!

Thank you all!

Cheers!
Doo Timbir



--- Greg Daley <greg.daley@eng.monash.edu.au> wrote: >
Hi Jinmei,
> 
> I'm not going to talk about the document itself.
> 
> JINMEI Tatuya / ???? wrote:
> [cut]
> > 
> > EDITORIAL COMMENTS
> > 
> > 15. this draft uses the term "Neighbour", but for
> this particular term,
> >   I guess we should stick to the US standard
> "Neighbor", because the
> >   base documents such as RFC2461 use the latter,
> and people may search
> >   for related documents with (e.g.) "grep -i
> neighbor rfc*.txt".
> > 
> >   (In this sense, I don't care about
> "behaviour":-)
> 
> 
> based on my local archive:
> 
> grep  -i neighbour rfc*txt | wc -l
>      297
> grep  -i neighbor rfc*txt | wc -l
>     7695
> 
> 
> it seems the RFC editors aren't checking this:
> 
> grep  -c neighbour rfc*txt | sort -tc -n +1 | grep
> -v '^rfc[0-9]*.txt:0' 
> |tail -10
> rfc2722.txt:1
> rfc2811.txt:1
> rfc2813.txt:1
> rfc2815.txt:1
> rfc3208.txt:4
> rfc3519.txt:1
> rfc3549.txt:1
> rfc3719.txt:3
> rfc3765.txt:9
> rfc3787.txt:1
> 
> 
> Is it really important to have the text generated by
> one
> English speaking author (in this case an Australian)
> homologated to another dialect?
> 
> Greg
> 
> 
>
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