Re: RFC abbreviations list

[John C Klensin <[e-mail]>]

FWIW, yes, I was addressing the same list Joel was, i.e., the
abbreviations that are allowed to be used without (local)
expansion.  The rest, IMO, is little more than a way to avoid
conflicting abbreviations within the IETF.

best,
   john

--On Sunday, July 26, 2020 00:55 -0400 "Joel M. Halpern"
<[e-mail]> wrote:

> It may be that we are discussing two different things.
> I am not concerned with what abbreviations appear in the
> "these are abbreviations commonly used in the IETF" list.  I
> am concernwed with the subset of that list marked with a *,
> meaning that they usually do not require expansion.   Of the
> three examples you cite, two are marked with a *, the third
> (RSASSA-PSS) is not so marked.
> 
> If the question is how things get into the list at all, that
> is one question, and not something we have to be particularly
> limited about.
> My reading of other notes was that the question was things
> marked with a "*".