Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:07:45 -0400 From: Tom Rhodes <trhodes@FreeBSD.org> To: Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> Cc: doc-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/en docs.sgml Message-ID: <20030414090745.134dc8a6.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <20030413160926.E902@freebsdmall.com> References: <200304082353.h38NrZXM010842@repoman.freebsd.org> <20030412183216.Z43794@freebsdmall.com> <20030413145741.S28372@znfgre.tberna.bet> <20030414062201.184a0581.trhodes@FreeBSD.org> <20030413160926.E902@freebsdmall.com>
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On Sun, 13 Apr 2003 16:09:26 -0700 Murray Stokely <murray@FreeBSD.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 14, 2003 at 06:22:01AM -0400, Tom Rhodes wrote: > > > Do you have a URL for that? And how do they list it? The RFC's have it as > > > IPSec, IPSEC, and IPsec, with the last being the most popular. Seems like > > > as long as we're consistent, we're at least in the ballpark. > > > > > > > Personally, last I checked, we were using the `IPSec' spelling in both > > the sources and in most (if not all) of the documentation. I think it > > should just stay like that. > > Doug, our word list is maintained in the Doc Project Primer : > doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer and we default to the O'Reilly > spelling for unlisted words. The O'Reilly word list is linked from > that article. > > I'm not sure what two sources Tom is referring to above, but it's > spelled as 'IPSEC' on the O'Reilly word list, which is the second most > popular spelling according to earlier posters on this thread. I'm > fine with switching to 'IPsec' if it is in fact more common in the > literature, but we just need to keep our word lists updated so that > someone else doesn't come through and switch it back in 6 months. > Mainly I'm quoting the OpenSSL stuff, and I think some parts of the handbook use `IPSec' also. However, I'm not going to fight with anyone, as the majority of our sources do, in fact use the lower case `s'. Otherwise I'm not going to drag this on. Back to my studies. And yes, before someone points it out, my analysis of `sources' was incorrect, but I can almost swear it was IPSec in the NOTES file... Perhaps I need more sleep. -- Tom Rhodes
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