Re: [Iotops] Use of abbreviations

FYI, the RFC Editor maintains a list of abbreviations. A few of them are marked as "well known" and can be used in RFCs (and by implication in drafts) without expansion. Otherwise, the policy is that abbreviations should be expanded when first used or in a Terminology section.

The list is at https://www.rfc-editor.org/materials/abbrev.expansion.txt

TA and OTP are both listed, but without an asterisk, so they should be expanded in drafts. However, it's a big ask for people to expand them in emails, IMHO.

Regards
   Brian Carpenter

On 03-Nov-20 01:38, William_J_G Overington wrote:
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>     ------ Original Message ------
>     From: "Henk Birkholz" <henk.birkholz@sit.fraunhofer.de>
>     To: "William_J_G Overington" <wjgo_10009=40btinternet.com@dmarc.ietf.org>; Iotops@ietf.org
>     Sent: Monday, 2020 Nov 2 At 10:45
>     Subject: Re: [Iotops] Use of abbreviations
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>     Hello William,
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>     thank you for chiming in and speaking out. Sometimes conversations migrate to a place - hitting the road running - and that can make it more difficult to join such conversations.
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>     TA typically refers to a Trust Anchor in this context. That word is given a well-scoped meaning in RFC4949.
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>     On 02.11.20 09:03, William_J_G Overington wrote:
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>     			Could it be the custom and practice of this mailing list that upon first use of an abbreviation in a post that the meaning is stated in full please?
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>     Recently I had to look up OTP, I think I found the correct meaning but I am not congruently sure.
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>     I am still trying to find out what TA means.
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>     When, in another venue, I included mention of a
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>     So it is a balance. My training was to always explain an acronym the first time one uses it, because some readers might not know the meaning of the acronym.
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>     So, I am retired, at home, just trying to take an interest and participate, I am not "at" an organization and I am "not representing an organization", but hopefully that is fine with the people who are "at" or are "representing an organization".
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>     William Overington
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>     Monday 2 November 2020
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