Re: Need some grammar help

Subject: Re: Need some grammar help
From: Peter Neilson <neilson -at- windstream -dot- net>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com, "Anne B. Cornwell" <cornwell -dot- ab -at- gmail -dot- com>
Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2010 07:27:51 -0500

On 11/14/2010 05:41 AM, Sandy Harris wrote:

>> The packets are put into little electronic envelopes, each one
>> bearing a Web address, and handed over to the Internet protocol, the IP part

> Not just lame, appalling.
>
> "web address"? The correct term is IP address.
>
> "Packets are put into little electronic envelopes." Spare me! Data is put
> into packets, which have a header (a bit like the address on an envelope)
> for address and port information.

See RFCs 1149 and 2549, in which it is proven that the little envelopes
need not be electronic for certain instances of OSI's Physical Layer.

The article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_over_Avian_Carriers has
additional information about non-electronic IP.
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References:
Need some grammar help: From: A.B. Cornwell
RE: Need some grammar help: From: Fred Ridder
Re: Need some grammar help: From: John Garison
Re: Need some grammar help: From: Technical Writing Plus
Re: Need some grammar help: From: A.B. Cornwell
Re: Need some grammar help: From: Sandy Harris

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