Re: [DNSOP] comments on dnsop-qname-minimisation-02

Shumon Huque <shuque@gmail.com> Thu, 12 March 2015 11:38 UTC

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Subject: Re: [DNSOP] comments on dnsop-qname-minimisation-02
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On Thu, Mar 12, 2015 at 7:14 AM, Niall O'Reilly <niall.oreilly@ucd.ie>
wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Mar 2015 16:50:07 +0000,
> Paul Hoffman wrote:
> >
> > >> I'd prefer the simpler "The problem statement is described in ..".
> > >> The term "exposed" in my mind carries a more sensational connotation,
> > >> but I might be nitpicking.
> > >
> > > Advice from english writers here?
> >
> > +1 to Shumon: "exposed" is more sensational, and not appropriate here.
>
>   Indeed, "exposed" is inappropriate; so is "described".
>
>   Reference to _describing_ the problem statement (perhaps as
>   "elegant" or "clumsy"; "long-winded" or "concise") isn't what's
>   needed here.
>

Good point.


>
>   I suggest any one of "presented", "declared", or "specified".
>
>
I like 'specified' best. We should use that.

I'm neutral about 'presented'.

And I don't like 'declared', which sounds like an authoritarian decree
handed down by the high priests of protocol development!

Shumon Huque