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RE: "Internet Standard (STD)" - phrase known by Web programmers ?
Subject:RE: "Internet Standard (STD)" - phrase known by Web programmers ? From:"Combs, Richard" <richard -dot- combs -at- Polycom -dot- com> To:Lee Fisher <blibbet -at- gmail -dot- com>, Monique Semp <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> Date:Tue, 22 May 2012 15:32:11 -0700
Lee Fisher wrote:
> All I'd add to this thread is "Internet Standard" seems vague. IETF
> surely makes them, but so does W3C, OASIS, and other standards bodies.
> I
> guess I'd prefer to see "IETF" mentioned to give better scope.
>
> And in your specific text, I presume somewhere you mention the STD #,
> or
> RFC # or I-D name. Don't make the user try to figure out which standard
> you mean... :-)
"The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from."
-- Andrew Tanenbaum
;-)
Richard G. Combs
Senior Technical Writer
Polycom, Inc.
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