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Re: British or American spelling in IETF docs

S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com> Tue, 18 August 2026 22:30 UTC

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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:26:57 -0700
To: Ken Kubota <ietf@kenkubota.de>, ietf@ietf.org
From: S Moonesamy <sm+ietf@elandsys.com>
Subject: Re: British or American spelling in IETF docs
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Hi Ken,

The draft was posted around 2018 {1].  The last time the topic of 
spelling was discussed on this mailing list was on or around 
2020.  The question which Jordi Palet asked is related to RFC Editor 
policy.  Anyone interested in changing the policy could do it through 
the RFC Series Working Group (it's not considered as an IETF working group).

One possible fix to a "which spelling" issue would be to use large 
language models.  That topic was recently discussed: 
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/3VaBJ6pEdhtkpOtnZYA_HcVHejU/ 
The (possible) fix would cause other problems (John Klensin hinted 
about that somewhere in the "spelling" thread).

Regards,
S. Moonesamy

1. https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/ietf/wZLsfyrwpT9ydLNwLqB0bfMaGUU/

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