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David Herron <david@twg.com> Fri, 08 July 1994 17:04 UTC

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From: David Herron <david@twg.com>
Subject: re: draft-ietf-mhsds-subtrees-05, draft-ietf-mhsds-infotree-05, draft-ietf-mhsds-routdirectory-05
To: "Donald E. Eastlake 3rd (Beast)" <dee@skidrow.lkg.dec.com>
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>I object to the titles of these internet drafts.
>...  If those working in the OSI context wish, within
>that context, to pretent that X.500 is the only directory system, they
>are welcome to do so.  But I find it misleading, arrogant, and
>offensive for documents to be initiated in the IETF context which
>refer to "the Directory" or in some cases just "Directory" when
>refering to one particular directory system among many.
>
>Donald


Do you also object to:

MHS as used by Novell?

PC as used by IBM on a particular sort of personal computer they began
marketing ~ 15 yrs ago?

DOS as used by Microsoft even though other DOS's were in existance (hmm..
well, at least Microsoft had the sense to call it MS-DOS for awhile).

Windows as used by Microsoft .. they've even gotten the trademark office to
go along with this one!  Also "Word" (Word for Windows) ..


I'm sure that one could list such things for a long time.

	David

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