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Re: How could RDDL be distributed ?
- From: Steve Tinney <stinney@sas.upenn.edu>
- To: James Robertson <jamesr@steptwo.com.au>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2001 01:39:29 -0500
James Robertson wrote:
>
> At 16:57 17/01/2001, you wrote:
>
> >Sorry if you assumed it was some kind of insiderism. The reason
> >we used it was that the IETF has a silly little tradition
> >of using an 8 character or less short name for sessions so that
> >it will fit on a small format schedule. "contextualization" wouldn't
> >fit so we used c15n. Nothing sinister, just a silly acronym
> >game...
>
As the original author of the insiderism comment to James, I stand by my
point. Obfuscation by alpha-numeric abbreviation is *both* convenient
to insiders *and* a barrier to outsiders. Proliferation of such
abbreviations increases the socio-linguistic distance between insiders
and outsiders. Such is life.
Steve