- From: Mike Brown <mike@skew.org>
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2004 17:15:52 -0600 (MDT)
- To: tony@tonyhammond.net
- Cc: mike@skew.org, uri@w3.org
Tony Hammond wrote: > I thought there were two actually terms in use: 'internet' and 'Internet'. > An 'internet' is any telecom system of interconnected networks (e.g. an > intranet). The 'Internet' is just one particular instance of a rather public > 'internet' - pretty big one, mind. But just one instance, nevertheless. Roy must be burying his head in his hands now. The level pedantry we all demonstrate must be staggering :) So, you are suggesting leaving the new text as-is, and just lowercasing the "I" in "Internet"? I wouldn't do that. There being a difference between 'an internet' and 'the Internet' I can appreciate even without any cited references because I'm a big nerdy geek, but this is a pending _Internet_ Engineering Task Force _Internet_-Draft we're talking about improving, here. Almost everyone reading the spec would not think to interpret "internet-accessible objects" any differently than "Internet-accessible objects". You also seem to assert that an intranet is a type of internet. The inter- and intra- prefixes are typically used in a mutually exclusive fashion; the the latter can't be a subclass of the former. http://www.bartleby.com/68/58/3358.html
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