Re: Preferred usage "Internet Drafts" vs "Internet-Drafts"

Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> Sun, 14 August 2016 20:11 UTC

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Subject: Re: Preferred usage "Internet Drafts" vs "Internet-Drafts"
To: Dean Willis <dean.willis@softarmor.com>, ietf@ietf.org
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From: Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com>
Organization: University of Auckland
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Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 08:11:38 +1200
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On 15/08/2016 04:40, Dean Willis wrote:
> Okay, this is probably trivial. My life is trivia.
> 
> As a matter of style. I think of "internet drafts" as the documents we 
> process, and "internet-drafts" as the role-name for the I-D administrator.
> 
> The IETF web site mixes the usage. See: https://www.ietf.org/id-info/
> 
> The tao uses the hyphenated form: https://www.ietf.org/tao.html
> 
> Is there an actual preference in the community, or is the usage seen as 
> completely equivalent and interchangeable?

If we want to be formal, BCP 9 (RFC 2026) uses "Internet-Draft" (but with
one exception, not noted in the Errata).

   Brian