Re: [Iotops] Use of abbreviations

Hello Henk

Thank you.

Best regards,

William

------ 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
Hello William,

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.

TA typically refers to a Trust Anchor in this context. That word is 
given a well-scoped meaning in RFC4949.

Viele Grüße,

Henk

On 02.11.20 09:03, William_J_G Overington wrote:
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?

Recently I had to look up OTP, I think I found the correct meaning but I 
am not congruently sure.

I am still trying to find out what TA means.

When, in another venue, I included mention of a

PDF (Portable Document Format) document

I was informed that readers would know what PDF meant.

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.

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".

William Overington

Monday 2 November 2020

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