Re: [Roll] RPL-Unaware-Leaf or RPL-Unaware Leaf ?

"Timothy J. Salo" <salo@saloits.com> Mon, 14 December 2020 19:47 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Roll] RPL-Unaware-Leaf or RPL-Unaware Leaf ?
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On 12/14/2020 9:08 AM, Pascal Thubert (pthubert) wrote:
> Dear all:
> 
> We just got this remark in Elwyn’s review of the RUL draft:
> 
>> s1, s2.2, s2.3: The term defined in [USEofRPLinfo] is RPL-Unaware-Leaf rather
> 
>> than RPL-Unaware Leaf: s/RPL-Unaware Leaf/RPL-Unaware Leaf/ (3 places).
> 
>> Similarly s/RPL-Aware Leaf/RPL-Aware-Leaf/ (1 place) and s/RPL-Aware
> 
>> Node/RPL-Aware-node/ (2 places).
> 
> I wondered, in terms of English which makes more sense?
> 
> We can fix either draft. I can’t understand why useofrplinfo has a ‘–‘ 
> between aware and leaf?

The rules for hyphens in English include:

o Use a hyphen to join two or more words serving as a single adjective
   before a noun.

So, "RPL-Unaware Leaf" would be better than "RPL-Unaware-Leaf".
Hyphenating "RPL Unaware Leaf Node" might be, in my opinion, a bit more
ambiguous: Do you mean "RPL-Unaware-Leaf Node" or
"RPL-Unaware Leaf-Node".

Another of the hyphenation rules is:

o Use a hyphen to avoid confusion.

This might rule might provide some insight into "RPL-Unaware-Leaf Node"
or "RPL-Unaware Leaf-Node".  In this document, I think that
"RPL-Unaware Leaf Node" would be preferred, because that we all
understand that "Leaf Node" is a essentially single term.

In general, I don't think there should be a hyphen between aware and
leaf.

-tjs