Re: [DNSOP] I-D Action: draft-ietf-dnsop-qname-minimisation-02.txt

"Rose, Scott W." <scott.rose@nist.gov> Mon, 09 March 2015 15:29 UTC

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According to my dictionary (as in, at least US english).

The usual phrasing in the sentence would be "less than" or "fewer than".  

Scott

On Mar 9, 2015, at 10:21 AM, Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu> wrote:

> 
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer <bortzmeyer@nic.fr> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2015 at 08:10:11AM -0500,
>  Bob Harold <rharolde@umich.edu> wrote
>  a message of 218 lines which said:
> 
> > I think the change in section 4 "Performance implications" is incorrect:
> 
> This was reported by a native english speaker and committed here
> <https://github.com/bortzmeyer/my-IETF-work/commit/4d8c75529ccec0cea334d78a665f73ebde27d897#diff-64cb8059630496a308f9d7d0f81ff316L197>
> 
> If I understand you, "inferior" in english has only the meaning "not
> as good as" and never "fewer than" (which may be a good thing, which
> is the case here)?
> 
> Yes, that is how I understand it.  Can someone else confirm or deny?
>  
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