Re: Question about phraseology in Docs for Cellular

["Caroline Tabach" <caroline -dot- tabach -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Thanks for these interesting answers,
I am writing about GSM/UMTS, and as someone mentioned there is a thin
line between the developers specs and what you can write in a user
guide.
As I said, I inherited this book from an outsourcer on whom I cannot
really rely (the book was so bad, I spend such a long time rewriting,
till I am sick of it, and it is still not good enough)

On 5/10/07, Jonathan West <jwest -at- mvps -dot- org> wrote:
> I used to work on the team which wrote the GSM and 3G specifications.
>
> You can download the complete set of all the 3GPP standards if you want,
> using anonymous FTP from ftp.3gpp.org. Navigate tot the Specs folder, and
> then wo whichever version you want to download. (They are updated every 3
> months, and all the old versions remain available.)
>
> The current version of document listing the common terms and abbreviations
> is here
> http://www.3gpp.org/ftp/Specs/2007-03/Rel-7/21_series/21905-730.zip
>
>
> > I would like to know, is the word "handover" ever abbreviated to HO,
>
> Yes, this abbreviation is used in the standards and is specified in the
> terms and abbreviations.
>
> >
> > May the term User Equipment be abbreviated to UE?
>
> Yes.
>
> >
> > (the documentation I received uses HO and UE, and handover written
> > hand-over or Hand Over etc. I would like to use the terms correctly)
>
> Use "handover" for the overall process, use HANDOVER for the specific
> message sent by the network to a mobile to initiate the process. (All layer
> 3 messages are capitalised in this way.)
>
>
> Jan Cohen mentioned using "handoff" rather than "handover". It may be that
> this term is used on the old analog systems, but I would avoid using it for
> GSM/3G digital cellular, as the term "handover" is specified in the GSM
> specifications, and users familiar with the system will know precisely what
> you mean when you use that word.
>
> If you are writing for a technical audience familiar with GSM systems, I
> would recommend wherever possible using the terms and abbreviations defined
> in the standards themselves. That reduces as far as possible the scope for
> misunderstanding.
>
>
> Regards
> Jonathan West
>
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